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Monitor Azure Government with Datadog

Azure Government is a dedicated cloud for public sector organizations that want to leverage Azure’s suite of services in their highly regulated environments. As these organizations migrate their applications to Azure Government, they need to ensure that they can maintain visibility into the status and health of their entire infrastructure.

An overview of key .NET 6 features

.NET 6 is finally here, giving us a new long term stable version of.NET Core. .NET 6 succeeds.NET 5, which was generally seen as a “skip version” by most of us, getting limited use compared to.NET Core 3.1. With this release, we get updates to both the runtime and the C# language. In this post, we’re taking a closer look at what we see as three of the most useful.NET 6 features.

Building a unified analytics platform for ServiceDesk Plus, Desktop Central and OpManager

It's no secret that data-driven IT management can put your organization light years ahead of its peers. The challenge is, how can you bring in data from several IT applications and services into one console for analysis? Analytics Plus, ManageEngine's flagship IT analytics software, has introduced blended analytics that enables users to automatically blend data from ServiceDesk Plus, Desktop Central, and OpManager, and gain a unified view of the IT environment.

Synthetic Testing and Real User Monitoring

Synthetic Testing and Real User Monitoring are the most important tools in your performance toolbox. But they do different things and are useful at different times and many developers only spend time mastering one of these tools and only see a part of their performance problems, like trying to hammer in a screw. Let’s look at these tools, what they measure, and when to use them.

Loki 2.4 is easier to run with a new simplified deployment model

Loki 2.4 is here! It comes with a very long list of cool new features, but there are a couple things I really want to focus on here. Be sure to check out the full release notes and of course the upgrade guide to get all the latest info about upgrading Loki. Also check out our ObservabilityCON 2021 session Why Loki is easier to use and operate than ever before.

Grafana Tempo 1.2 released: New features make monitoring traces 2x more efficient

Grafana Tempo 1.2 has been released! Among other things, we are proud to present both our first version to support search and the most performant version of Tempo ever released. There are also some minor breaking changes so make sure to check those out below. If you want ALL the details you can always check out the v1.2 changelog, but if that’s too much, this post will cover all the big ticket items.

Enabling SRE best practices: new contextual traces in Cloud Logging

The need for relevant and contextual telemetry data to support online services has grown in the last decade as businesses undergo digital transformation. These data are typically the difference between proactively remediating application performance issues or costly service downtime. Distributed tracing is a key capability for improving application performance and reliability, as noted in SRE best practices.