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Enhanced Enterprise Alert Reporting with Power BI

The benefits of using the correct reporting, analytics and information delivery capabilities can transform an organization. Having access to timely data, reporting, and analytic capabilities helps to ensure the ability to get the right data to the right users at the right time. Having the ability to pull any information that your business needs at any given time allows for the flexibility to get the information for your business when and where it is needed.

Share your failures with robots: surfacing activities with GitHub actions

In our previous announcement, we announced that activities on Upsun were now shareable. If you need to send a member of our support team something fishy going on in your build hook, or get help from another member of your team about a database migration taking longer than expected, you can send them to the exact logline you need help with.

Use Datadog's GitHub and source code integrations to streamline troubleshooting

GitHub Apps is a service that helps you automate key processes in your workflow. Datadog now uses GitHub Apps to interact directly with the GitHub API, enabling you to add valuable context to your notebooks. And once you’ve also integrated Datadog with your source code, you can access links to Git repositories and inline code snippets for stack traces.

Monitor Kubernetes with Fairwinds Insights' offering in the Datadog Marketplace

Fairwinds Insights is Kubernetes governance and security software that enables DevOps teams to monitor and prevent configuration problems in their infrastructure and applications. Not only does Fairwinds simplify Kubernetes complexity, but it also reduces risk by surfacing security and reliability issues in your Kubernetes clusters.

The future is not the Internet of Things... it is the Connected Intelligent Edge

The ‘Internet of Things’ was first coined to help people understand the concept of digital appliances that could communicate with an app or central hub. If you’ve been to CES at any point in the last decade, you could see many examples on the show floor, such as connected weight scales or a connected fridge. But these early examples of ‘connected’ tech felt more gimmicky than useful, and were largely contained to the consumer electronics industry.

ITSM 2021: A year in review

The IT Service Management landscape has shifted enormously over the last 12 months. From companies leveraging AI to modernize ITSM/ITOM capabilities to prioritizing employee experience in the workplace, the past year has seen ITSM emerge as an organizational superpower to implement highly cognitive technologies. In this article, we give you a complete rundown of what happened in ITSM in 2021.

Diagnosing Downtime, Made Easy with Uptime.com

Downtime is one diagnosis you don’t want to waste time with second opinions. You want accurate alerting the first time around, followed by drill-down tools to uncover and help you treat root cause as fast as possible. As with any form of health (even domain health), preventive care should always be your first defence. With Uptime.com “preventive care” means 360º monitoring that doesn’t skimp on analysis.

Flask Application Manual Instrumentation for Distributed Traces

In this blog series, we share the application instrumentation steps for distributed tracing with OpenTelemetry standards across multiple languages. Earlier, we covered Java Application Manual Instrumentation for Distributed Traces, Golang Application Instrumentation for Distributed Traces, Node JS Application for Distributed Traces, and DotNet Application Instrumentation for Distributed Traces. In this blog post, we are going to cover.

New Relic vs. Appdynamics vs. Scout APM

New Relic and Appdynamics were the two most dominating APMs in the software industry some years back. But after the advancement of technology, software monitoring tools started capturing the market. Due to some lack of functionalities, customers have begun switching to different tools because now they have a perfect solution for their particular use case.