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Quickly and securely enable monitoring for your entire Google Cloud environment

A foundational component of monitoring Google Cloud environments with Datadog is our Google Cloud Platform integration. This integration continuously collects metrics from all of your Google Cloud services and enriches them with tags, enabling you to scope dashboards and monitors to the relevant resources and seamlessly pivot across logs, metrics, and traces inside the Datadog platform.

Logic App Best Practices, Tips, and Tricks: #34 How to validate JSON messages

In the last three blog posts, we explain how to validate null inside Logic App and specifying json schema elements/properties and perform JSON Schema restrictions in Logic Apps. Today and to finish, at least for now this topic, I will speak about another best practice, Tips and Tricks that you must consider while designing your business processes (Logic Apps): Validating JSON messages against schema in Logic Apps.

GrafanaCON 2023 keynote: Grafana 10, cool new dashboards, and more

The keynote at GrafanaCON 2023 streamed live from Stockholm and kicked off two days of sessions on the latest Grafana 10 release as well as success stories and interesting use cases from the community. You can watch all the GrafanaCON sessions online. For more about Grafana 10, read the Grafana 10 release blog. You can explore all the new features in Grafana 10 by upgrading your instance or downloading Grafana 10 today.

Perform Distributed Tracing with Zipkin

Open source Zipkin offers a robust set of features that make it easier for developers to understand and optimize complex distributed systems. Distributed tracing is a technique you can use to trace and monitor requests propagating through a distributed system. It can work in environments where multiple services process a request, making it an essential tool for modern microservices architectures. Zipkin is an open source distributed tracing system for monitoring and troubleshooting complex systems.

Monitoring Real-Time Stock Quotes with MetricFire

In the ever-evolving stock market landscape, immediate access to accurate information is crucial for investors and financial experts alike. In this piece, titled "Monitoring Real-Time Stock Quotes with MetricFire," we dive deep into the realm of advanced technology, focusing on its potential to transform stock market tracking and decision-making procedures.

Icinga Kubernetes Helm Charts

Before attending Icinga Berlin in May this year, Daniel Bodky and Markus Opolka from our partner NETWAYS developed the very first Icinga Kubernetes Helm Charts and released it in an alpha version. If you have ever wanted to deploy an entire Icinga stack in your Kubernetes cluster, now is your chance. I also want to highlight Daniel’s talk again on how Icinga can run on Kubernetes and the challenges involved.

Synthetic Monitoring With Checkly and Playwright Test

One of the most effective ways to monitor a critical user flow on a website—or monitor the operation of a critical API that other applications depended on—is to adopt synthetic monitoring. Synthetic monitoring is an approach to monitoring websites and applications that simulates the actions of real users via browser automation. It mirrors the actions that a visitor may take on your website, say browsing an online shop, adding items to a shopping cart, and then checking out.

Monitor network access with Twingate's offering in the Datadog Marketplace

Twingate is a network access platform that enables customers to deploy a zero trust authentication layer with their infrastructure as code (IAC) provider of choice. Using this model, you can program strict access control rules that can be updated and co-deployed alongside changes to your infrastructure. Each time a user establishes or closes a connection to a resource, Twingate documents the event with details such as the port, the volume of data transferred, and user identification.

WhatsUp Gold 2023.0: Greater Transparency and Wider Access to Network Data

One of the greatest challenges for an IT team is visibility. How can you prove the value of your IT team’s accomplishments when no one can see what – or how well – you’re doing? Progress WhatsUp Gold release 2023.0, available as of June 21, 2023, is set to change that. This release includes several exciting updates meant to provide better data access to all.