Serverless can bring opportunities by making DevOps more accessible to folks new to the industry. It can also bring opportunities to folks already in the industry that want to spend more time focusing on adding business value. But many technologists, seasoned or otherwise, hear a lot about serverless but don’t always know how to get started.

In a world where the applications we run are constantly changing, the number of monitored metrics and events is skyrocketing, and responsibility for system components is fragmented across teams, it becomes increasingly difficult to pinpoint possible root causes of an issue in a timely manner. To address this challenge, we’re introducing Metric Correlations, which automatically finds candidates for the causes of an issue by searching your system for correlated metrics.

SAP HANA is a data analytics platform that uses an in-memory, column-oriented data store to efficiently execute transactional (OLTP) and analytical (OLAP) queries. It can perform these queries against its own tables, or against data that resides in remote, non-SAP databases like Hadoop or SQL Server. SAP HANA also serves as the database behind SAP’s S/4HANA ERP platform. Datadog’s new integration helps you better understand the health and performance of your SAP HANA systems.

It’s that time of year again, the time for retrospective articles and “Top 10 of the Year” posts. We decided to focus our recap on how CVEs and changes in the threat landscape affected Kubernetes in 2019, and what changes that brought about inside of Rancher. Throughout 2019, solutions across the CNCF stack prioritized security and brought it to the forefront of both mind and action.

In our previous blog post, we discussed how investments in AIOps platforms have been justified on the basis of their ability to decrease mean time to problem resolution and the resultant cost reduction. But one of the challenges most IT Ops teams face is in the approach of deploying AIOps solutions for business-critical use cases: Where do we start? Some use AIOps to analyze unstructured data in order to identify higher-level correlations that traditional IT monitoring tools wouldn’t be capable of.

We’re excited to release version 7 of the Datadog Agent. It has all of the same functionality as Agent 6, but it is the first version to ship with only the Python 3 runtime. With Python 2 reaching its end of life on January 1, 2020, migrating your services to Python 3 will ensure that they continue working as expected. We’ve tested all of our more than 350 integrations to ensure they work with Python 3.

Cilium is an open source technology that delivers network security to large-scale containerized environments at the packet and application levels. Cilium integrates easily with your Kubernetes clusters, either self-managed or managed services (e.g., Amazon EKS, Google GKE, and Microsoft AKS). You can also deploy Cilium to Docker environments using Mesos.