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The latest News and Information on Application Performance Monitoring and related technologies.

Outdated Calculus of Cloud Cost Containment

“Cost” would seem to underpin almost every decision IT teams make. Sure, business requirements drive overall operations budgets, but it’s always in tension with decades-old certainties about cost. It’s long been the unyielding constant of IT equations. In particular, IT pros migrating application infrastructures out of the data center have discovered the on-premises math of cost containment no longer works.

Dash Studio: Building time-based comparison dashboards

AppDynamic's Dash Studio makes it easier and faster to build custom dashboards that deliver rich and comprehensive insights into your application's performance metrics. Check out this video that shows you how to build dashboards that compare application performance across multiple time ranges, in a matter of moments.

Self-hosting software & why it may be worth considering again now

Not all industries are the same in terms of the sensitivity of data they handle. And as you mature as a company, you need to be more careful of how you handle your critical data. With the advent of modern cloud native technologies & Kubernetes, on-prem software is more viable now.

Datadog receives a "Leader" distinction in Gartner's 2021 Magic Quadrant for APM

This week, Gartner published the 2021 Magic Quadrant for Application Performance Monitoring, which positions vendors according to their ability to execute and the completeness of their vision. This year, Datadog placed higher and further in both categories to move from our previous “Visionary” distinction, which we received the first time we were included on the Quadrant, into the “Leader” quadrant.

Datadog On Agent Integration Development

To make sure that customers are getting the most out of the platform in the least amount of time, Datadog maintains more than 400 built-in integrations. These integrations collect metrics, events, and logs from a diverse set of sources: databases, source control, bug tracking tools, cloud providers, automation tools, and more. How do we make sure that all those integrations are properly tested, updated for new features, and delivered to millions of hosts?

Elastic named a Visionary in the 2021 Gartner Magic Quadrant for Application Performance Monitoring

We’re excited to announce that Elastic has been named a Visionary in the 2021 Gartner Magic Quadrant for Application Performance Monitoring. We are thrilled with the Visionary placement and believe that it validates our differentiated approach to delivering a modern application performance monitoring solution, powered by the Elastic Stack. Download the complimentary report to see how Gartner evaluates the market, and why they recognized Elastic as a Visionary in our first time participating.