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Doubling Down on Database Performance Management

10/23/20 How many applications do you use every day? On average, probably 20. Think about it—We use them to check email, to avoid traffic, to know if we need a coat, to order dinne…

Strengthening Operational Resilience: A Crucial Goal for Surviving the Next Threat

It’s an interesting moment in time, to say the least. Across industries, every company is looking inward at their own operations to determine how they can weather this period in hi…

6 Questions to Jumpstart Your IT Asset Management Strategy

10/22/20 IT asset management (ITAM) is a hot topic of 2020. Like almost everything else, managing lifecycle costs and minimizing risks has been a bit more complicated in recent mon…

AWS Distro for OpenTelemetry sends metrics and traces to Datadog

This article details how to leverage Datadog's APM to visualize and analyze runtime metrics collected from applications instrumented with OpenTelemetry (OTel). By sending OTel data…

Can You Consistently Deliver the Digital Experience You’ve Promised?

10/20/20 If the users aren’t happy, then in short order, neither will anyone else be. The ubiquity of information technology has exposed users to the best the IT industry has to of…

Datadog Distributed Tracing: live-query all ingested traces, retain only the ones you need

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How Network Telemetry Is Becoming the New Normal

10/19/20 The work being done on federal, state, and local levels to ensure the health of society during and post-COVID-19 will be driven by the Internet of Things (IoT). From conta…

Add more context to your logs with Reference Tables

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Tried and True Tech Tips

10/16/20 Anyone who’s worked in IT knows a great deal of the day-to-day work doesn’t come down to one secret trick—the job consists mainly of stringing together hard-won wisdom and…

Enabling Work-From-Anywhere Models

In Part 1 and Part 2 of this blog series, we established that forward-thinking organizations are prioritizing technology investments to ensure business growth and long-term relevan…

Your Disaster Recovery Strategy Is Useless If Your SQL Server Backups Haven’t Been Tested

10/15/20 It has been drilled into every DBA’s head to backup, backup, backup. We understand that it is not a matter of if we need to restore a database but when and how quickly. Ho…

8 Keys to Choosing an Ideal NPM Solution

I’m sure you’ll agree that cloud environments and new application architectures have drastically evolved over the past five years. With this evolution, network performance manageme…