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Four powerful Alerting workflows

Since its release last month, Alerting has quickly ingrained itself into the incident response workflow at some of the most technically advanced companies in the world. We’re here to empower your team to do the same. In this blog, we’ll run through four common alerts that you can implement today to ensure you’re maximizing the full potential of Alerting.

Announcing support for Graviton2-powered AWS Fargate deployments

AWS Fargate is a serverless compute engine that allows you to deploy containerized applications on services like Amazon ECS without needing to provision or manage compute resources. Now, Datadog is proud to be a launch partner with Amazon for their support of AWS Fargate workloads running on Graviton2, Amazon’s proprietary ARM64 processor.

How to Keep Traces for Slow and Failed Requests

Today we are introducing Local Tail-Based sampling in Kamon Telemetry! We are going to tell you all about it in a little bit but before that, let’s take a couple minutes to explore what is sampling, how it is used nowadays, and what motivated us to including local tail sampling in Kamon Telemetry.

Datadog vs. Dynatrace vs. Scout

Application Performance Monitoring is undoubtedly the hottest tool to accelerate any product’s growth in the modern market. The term has grown from a simple performance tracking operation to full-fledged infrastructure, network, and application observability. This evolution has only helped bring more and more growth into products. It is essential to choose the best-suited monitoring solution for your apps since observability involves way too many moving pieces.

Monolithic (Legacy) vs. Microservices Application Development

Microservices are becoming increasingly popular and are considered to be the next flexible, scalable, and reliable approach. Without a doubt, many developers are rethinking their application development methods. However, while many have been quick to jump on the microservices bandwagon, it’s not a decision that you should make lightly.

What's new in Sysdig - November 2021

Welcome to a new update of “What’s new in Sysdig.” Happy All Saints’/Souls’ Day! Happy International Pianist Day! Happy Thanksgiving! Happy Diwali! Glad alla helgons dag. The “What’s new in Sysdig” blog has been rotated to a new team, and this month, Peter Andersson is responsible for the publishing. Thanks to Chris Kranz for an excellent job compiling these articles earlier.

Visualizing IoT security metrics with Grafana at Network to Code

As the number of connected gadgets in our homes, offices, and industrial networks continues to grow exponentially, keeping IoT devices secure has become a vital part of our everyday lives. However, our webcams, printers, and smart plugs often lack security features due to their fast time to market, making them particularly vulnerable to attack. And because security metrics themselves can be tricky to assess, tracking IoT device security is increasingly a challenge.

Save 85% in Time Spent on Root Cause Analysis with Topology-based Observability | StackState demo

During the 2021 Gartner IT Infrastructure, Operations and Cloud Strategies conference, our senior solution engineer Mark Arts showed you how you can use topology-based observability - based on our 4T Data Model - to save 85% in time spent on root cause analysis. Useful links.