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Understanding your SQL Server Monitoring: Part 2 CPU

02/05/16 Welcome back. Last time we met, I reiterated the importance of a good SQL Server monitoring solution, and not just monitoring, but monitoring intelligently. We also went o…

Daily Monitoring of Microsoft Exchange

02/05/16 Email is the lifeline for almost every business in this world. When email is down businesses cannot communicate. There is loss of productivity, which could lead to dollars…

Understanding your SQL Server Monitoring: Part 1 Storage

02/05/16 As IT professionals, our main mission is to keep applications running successfully. Each application is judged by end-users, using different factors. Exchange is considere…

Application Monitoring: From Fire Fighter to Psychic Powers

02/04/16 As IT professionals, we have all been there, the dreaded help desk call “Is email down?” (Replace with any business critical application). One of the worst things we deal …

Monitor View: A window into Datadog's monitoring engine

Datadog's Terraform provider v4.0.0 is now available, bringing significant improvements including support for managing Datadog Logs Pipelines and enhanced resource import capabilit…

OpenStack: host aggregates, flavors, and availability zones

Datadog has expanded its monitoring capabilities to include full support for OpenStack, allowing users to gain visibility into their cloud infrastructure managed by OpenStack. This…

Host Maps just got better

Please provide me with the article "A new Host Map for modern infrastructure"! I need the text of the article to be able to summarize it for you. Just paste the article content h…

Anomaly Detection for Monitoring – A New eBook

01/27/16 We’re excited to share Anomaly Detection for Monitoring a new, free eBook written by Preetam Jinka and Baron Schwartz. In the eBook, published in collaboration with Ruxit …

Improving Data Privacy in 2016

01/26/16 January 28 is Data Privacy Day (DPD). Observed since 2008, DPD brings awareness to the importance of data privacy and protection. According to the Verizon 2015 Data Breach…

One Year of Open Prometheus Development

One year after its public announcement, the open-source monitoring system Prometheus has experienced significant growth and adoption thanks to a boost from Hacker News and a thrivi…

Install OpenStack in two commands for dev and test

This Datadog article explains how to effectively monitor your OpenStack infrastructure using Datadog's integrations. It details how to collect metrics from key OpenStack components…

Queueing Theory: London Underground Escalator Policy Challenges Social Norms

01/19/16 In 2016, we published our eBook Everything You Need to Know About Queueing Theory, and as part of its launch, we blogged about one way (of the many) queueing theory has re…