Temp Tables, Filesorts, UTF8, VARCHAR, and Schema Design in MySQL
03/02/15 The other day we were doing some peer review on a schema change at SolarWinds and the topic of character set, column length, and the potential downsides of using utf8 came…
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Introducing availability monitoring for Windows Services
This article details how to effectively manage logging in C# applications. It covers collecting logs using popular libraries like Serilog and NLog, customizing log messages with ri…
See Connection Latency with SolarWinds
02/26/15 Recently, one of our customers reached out to us about a problem they were having trouble diagnosing – they noticed that every once in a while, it took their MySQL server …
Schemaless Databases Don’t Exist
02/24/15 There’s no such thing as a schemaless database. I know, lots of people want a schemaless database, and lots of companies are promoting their products as schemaless DBMSs. …
What Is Com Admin Commands In MySQL?
02/23/15 If you’ve ever looked at the COMXYZ status counters in MySQL’s SHOW STATUS output, you’ve probably seen Comadmincommands. It’s not clear what this means, but it can be a m…
How to monitor Fluentd with Datadog
Please provide me with the article! I need the text of the article "Monitor your application and network load balancer logs" to be able to summarize it for you. Just paste the ar…
Query Digesting and String Quoting Syntax in SQL
02/16/15 One of the interesting challenges in writing a system like SolarWinds® Database Performance Monitor (DPM) is writing a query digesting algorithm that deals with all of the…
Monitor AWS SNS metrics with Datadog
This article details how to monitor your Amazon Managed Streaming for Kafka (MSK) clusters using Datadog. It outlines setting up Datadog to collect key metrics like broker health, …
Compressed Messages Using Kafka
02/11/15 First things first: A big shout out to the engineers at Shopify who work on Sarama, the Go Client we use for Kafka – they do a great job on the library! Alright, now to to…
Datadog Acquires Mortar Data
Datadog has acquired Timber Technologies, a company specializing in observability for cloud-native applications using open-source technologies like OpenTelemetry and Grafana. This …
How Database Performance Monitor Measures Queries
02/10/15 We often get questions about how we measure queries inside MySQL (and now PostgreSQL too). Many of these questions reveal assumptions about the metrics we provide and our …
Instrument your Go apps with Expvar and Datadog
The article details how the authors significantly reduced the size of their Go Agent binaries—by up to 77%—through a combination of techniques. These included stripping debug infor…