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New integrations for Azure monitoring

We are proud to announce that we have enhanced our Microsoft Azure integration to support more than 60 Azure services, including Cosmos DB, Service Bus, and Azure DB for MySQL and PostgreSQL. Datadog now automatically collects metrics and tags from all services supported by Azure Monitor to provide comprehensive Azure monitoring through one integration.

Try full-stack monitoring with Stackdriver on us

In advance of the new simplified Stackdriver pricing that will go into effect on June 30, we want to make sure everyone gets a chance to try Stackdriver. That’s why we’ve decided to offer the full power of Stackdriver, including premium monitoring, logging and application performance management (APM), to all customers—new and existing—for free until the new pricing goes into effect. This offer will be available starting June 18.

Monitor Oracle Database with Datadog

Oracle Database has long been a mainstay of the business world. Companies use it to handle data sets backing a wide variety of complex applications, including data warehouses or OLTP systems. Oracle Database includes enterprise-friendly features that emphasize scalability, advanced partitioning, and optimized availability of data across a large, potentially disparate infrastructure, as well as real-time backup and recovery tools.

Entering a Golden Age of Data Monitoring

Thomas Stocking, co-founder and vice president of product strategy, recently wrote an article titled Entering a Golden Age of Data Monitoring, featured in APM Digest. The article talks about three factors obscuring the benefits of data monitoring (the infinite volume of data, its diversity, and inconsistency), benefits of monitoring data, and the future of monitoring data—all fueling a “golden age” of systems monitoring.

A Comedy of Errors -- Or Weis of Rookout

In A Comedy of Errors, we talk to engineers about the weirdest, worst, and most interesting application and infrastructure issues they’ve encountered (and resolved) over the years. This week, we hear from Or Weis, co-founder and CEO of Rookout. Rookout’s focus is on collecting data in a seamless, immediate way that maximizes a developer’s insight into live code.

Errors on the world's top 100 websites and how to avoid them

When you think of the top 100 sites in the world, you think of high-traffic domains and pages coded to perfection. In fact, even the most popular sites in the world have errors hidden behind the scenes that are still visible in your browser’s developer tools. These can affect your experience as a user directly, create inaccurate tracking data and security vulnerabilities, and even lose the company revenue.

12 Possible Causes of a Failing Website

For any company with an online presence, website traffic is important. The more visitors you attract, the more opportunities you’ll have to advertise your brand, establish relationships and ultimately sell your service or product. This is why a sudden drop in search engine traffic is a frightening prospect, since it ultimately leads to business losses and lower revenue.