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How to Achieve Ultimate Freedom With Your Load Balancer

The popularity of open source software continues to soar alongside growth in cloud usage, including multi-cloud and hybrid cloud infrastructure. Pluralsight's State of Cloud 2023 report revealed that 65% of organizations actively leverage multi-cloud environments. Open source software is prized, in part, because it enables freedom of choice in an organization’s tech stack, especially in complex deployment environments.

Understanding the Deficiencies of AWS CloudWatch for Cloud Visibility

While CloudWatch offers basic monitoring and log aggregation, it lacks the contextual depth, multi-cloud integration, and cost efficiency required by modern IT operations. In this post, learn how Kentik delivers more detailed insights, faster queries, and more cost-effective coverage across various cloud and on-premises resources.

Event Logs Explained: Your Guide to System Health

Event logs contain critical information and the analysis of these logs will support organizations in the detection of many security incidents, from auditing user access to observing malicious traffic and even isolating monitor rule changes on a firewall. By collecting event logs systematically and analyzing them, organizations can obtain insights into their IT environment for maintaining operational efficiency and security.

Developer Experience (DevEx) Trends Shaping 2024

The quality of developer experience (DevEx) can make or break a development team’s success. But, what are the key trends shaping developer experience in 2024? We dove into the findings from Atlassian’s State of Developer Experience Report 2024, which sheds light on the various aspects that contribute to an optimal DevEx – from efficient tooling and processes to a supportive and inclusive work culture.

Monitor your Anthropic applications with Datadog LLM Observability

Anthropic is an AI research and development company focused on building reliable and safe artificial intelligence systems. Their flagship product is Claude, an advanced language model and conversational AI assistant known for its strong capabilities in natural language processing, reasoning, and task completion. Anthropic places a particular emphasis on AI safety and ethics, and its models and APIs are used by organizations across various industries to build powerful, safe, and performant AI applications.

Elastic Search 8.15: Accessible semantic search with semantic text and reranking

In 8.15, great search results are even more accessible for our customers. Our latest release brings semantic reranking, additional vector search tools, and more third-party model providers and promotes our native Learning to Rank (LTR) to generally available. And now search is more performant than ever with additional speed and efficiency improvements.

3 Ways Effective Data Management Supports Cyber Resilience

Global organizations are having increasingly critical discussions around the importance of cyber resiliency, an organization’s ability to withstand, respond to, and recover from cyber incidents. With the frequency of cyberattacks growing 30% since last year and the total estimated fallout of cyber 2024 cyberattacks charted to surpass $9.5 trillion, ensuring effective cyber hygiene and resiliency strategies is more important than ever.