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“SUDO Teach Me a Lesson”

03/02/21 The command “sudo” is an essential part of Vax, Unix, and Linux operating systems. It’s so intrinsic to how SysAdmins work, many consider “sudo” to be a built-in command a…

Augmented troubleshooting with Watchdog Insights

The Microsoft Sensitive Data Scanner now utilizes machine learning to more accurately detect human names within log data, improving upon previous regex-based methods. This new capa…

Monitor Juniper network devices with Datadog

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Change Is Hard

03/01/21 I.T. folks understand change can be hard, and I don’t mean in the “Who Moved My Cheese” kind of way. Change, as in “change control,” is necessary. But we don’t like the pr…

Upgrade Better, Faster, Stronger

03/01/21 Because of the recent cyberattack, we’ve asked you to update your Orion Platform several times. While these updates are necessary for the safety and performance of your en…

Project Management as a Critical Skillset

03/01/21 Public sector IT departments have undergone sweeping modernization efforts, from virtualization and mobility to cloud computing and digital transformation. At the same tim…

Key metrics for monitoring AWS Fargate

This article details how to effectively monitor AWS Fargate containers using Datadog. It explains how to leverage Datadog's auto-discovery and integration with AWS to collect metri…

AWS Fargate monitoring with Datadog

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How to collect metrics and logs from AWS Fargate workloads

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Meet the New Old Guy on the Head Geek Team

02/26/21 Growing up in the suburbs of Seattle, WA, in the late ‘60s and early ‘70s was like most everyone else’s experiences. Dad worked as an analog computer engineer for a Boeing…

Monitor GKE Autopilot with Datadog

This article details how to effectively monitor Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE) clusters using Datadog. It explains how to leverage Datadog's auto-discovery and pre-built integratio…

Use Datadog geomaps to visualize your app data by location

This article stresses the importance of linking technical errors in early-stage products *directly* to how they affect users, rather than just focusing on code-level bugs. By quant…