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In this post, we’ll dig into the difference between a bug and an incident, why alignment on how they are defined matters, and how to ensure you’re still learning from the issue, even if it’s “just a bug.”

CI pipelines have become an integral part of the development workflow, helping teams automate the continuous building and testing of new updates to application code. The growing importance of CI pipelines has naturally led to a need for increased visibility into their performance. In 2021, Datadog introduced CI Visibility to deliver granular performance metrics for each individual pipeline, allowing you to monitor build duration and related telemetry across all recent commits.

If you are reading this article, your organization is considering a TeamViewer alternative. Your organization may already be using TeamViewer and want an MDM solution more tailored to your needs, or your IT team may be weighing it against other options as part of an initial procurement process. This search is often initiated by the fact that TeamViewer takes a one-size-fits-all approach to mobile device management, which is generally not what brands need.

We all know about the great things Grafana dashboards can do, and configuring them as code makes it possible to get even more out of them. These days, Grafana resources can mostly be managed as code in a declarative manner, which enables code review, code reuse, and in general, better workflows. This guide presents a few as code tools you can use to declaratively manage Grafana resources, plus some tips and tricks on how to incorporate them efficiently into your own use cases.

There are hundreds of capabilities on CircleCI that were designed to create the best possible CI/CD experience for our users. But one feature that users often point to as the most valuable on the platform is the CircleCI Insights dashboard. The Insights dashboard provides full visibility into metrics like job status, duration monitoring, and solutions for pipeline optimization.

Just like shopping on Black Friday, AWS re:Invent has become a post-Thanksgiving tradition for some of us at Datadog. We were excited to join tens of thousands of fellow AWS users and partners for this annual gathering that features new product announcements, technical sessions, networking, and fun. This year, we saw three themes emerge from the conference announcements and sessions.