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Sending metrics to MetricFire

Monitoring IT resources is part of the daily activities in large and medium-sized companies, but smaller companies also benefit from the advantages of monitoring systems, memory capacity, availability, and performance. The aim of such proactivity is to ensure smooth processes - for example, IT administrators need to know days in advance that disk space is becoming too low, so they can do something about it.

Monitor Snowflake with Datadog

Snowflake is a cloud-native data platform that enables users to easily store, manage, analyze, and share high volumes of structured and semi-structured data. Whereas traditional data architectures often consist of multiple databases, data warehouses, and data lakes, Snowflake breaks down the silos between your different data sources and serves as a single source of truth for a wide range of simultaneous workloads.

KMC - Observing and Optimizing Your Rancher Env (with Datadog)

Kubernetes has exploded in popularity due to its versatility, ease of use, and powerful autoscaling abilities. With Rancher, teams can seamlessly manage their Kubernetes and cloud-native workloads. Getting observability into such a dynamic technology, however, remains challenging.

How 2020 Turned Cloud Unit Economics Upside Down

Do you know how much it costs to operate your software per customer, at each pricing tier? The past six months have been highly unusual to say the least. For some companies, the disruption and shift to work from home meant 100x in usage almost overnight; for others usage completely collapsed in the same time period. These sharp swings in utilization have been disruptive to cloud unit economics. Both scenarios are risky and require extreme elasticity from the technical infrastructure.