If you’re responsible for monitoring, chances are you’ve heard of Datadog. Like InfluxDB, Datadog is a monitoring platform for cloud applications, bringing together data from containers, servers, databases, and third-party services. InfluxData and Datadog approach monitoring from different starting points. InfluxDB is an open-source time-series data platform that can be used for a range of use cases, one of which is monitoring.

The biggest takeaway from Gartner’s 2020 Critical Capabilities report: Business leaders have a larger stake than ever in APM buying decisions.

With microservices becoming popular, tracing is increasingly more important in debugging production software. In this post, we take you through a step by step guide on setting up Jaeger over Kubernetes with Cassandra storage.