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Streamlining Troubleshooting for Work-from-Home Users: Tips for Effective Active Monitoring

It may feel like ancient history, but it was only a few years ago that, in response to the pandemic, organizations made a wholesale shift to support hybrid work models—and did so literally overnight, in many cases. While some time has passed, this is a shift to which many IT organizations are still struggling to fully adapt.

Support for Multi-buildpacks released

There are numerous instances where a single buildpack falls short in app building, for instance when working on a NodeJS app with a PHP backend. We are thrilled to announce the global and immediate availability of Multi-Buildpacks for all app sizes, including our Free tier. The Multi-Buildpack feature allows you to: Alongside the introduction of multi-buildpacks, we're expanding support for Add-on buildpacks (such as APT, Static, or the newly introduced FFmpeg buildpacks).

IT Asset Lifecycle Management: The 9 Stages to Manage Your IT Assets

As assets are the main object of the IT Asset Management practice, in order to take full advantage of it, it's essential to go deeper and implement a complete IT Asset Lifecycle Management. This is a complex process that goes from the request of the asset to its disposal, so it's important to design and apply a plan to ensure that every single step and requirement is addressed.

Monitor OTel-instrumented apps with support for W3C Trace Context

To get visibility into highly distributed applications, organizations often use various tracing tools that are best suited to each individual service owner’s specifications. However, when a request travels between services that have been instrumented with different tools, the trace data may be formatted differently, resulting in broken traces.

Deciphering Complex Logs With Regex Using BindPlane OP and OpenTelemetry

Parsing logs with regex is a valuable technique for extracting essential information from large volumes of log data. By employing this method, one can effectively identify patterns, errors, and other key insights, ultimately streamlining log analysis and enhancing system performance.

This Month in Datadog: DASH 2023, In-App WAF and User Protection, Cloudcraft for Azure, and more!

Datadog is constantly elevating the approach to cloud monitoring and security. This Month in Datadog updates you on our newest product features, announcements, resources, and events. This month, we put the Spotlight on DASH 2023..

Strengthen Your Security Strategy to Safeguard Against Migrations Risks

In part 1 of this post, we talked about how Cribl is empowering security functions by giving our customers freedom of choice and control over their data. This post focuses on their experiences and the benefits they are getting from our suite of products. In a past life, I was in charge of security and operational logging at Transunion — around 2015, things started going crazy.

3 Ways Financial Institutions Can Reduce Operational Risk With Automation

The unexpected collapse of Silicon Valley Bank (SVB) in March served as a wake-up call for financial institutions, depositors, shareholders, and regulators alike. If a seemingly-solid bank like SVB can go under almost overnight, everyone has begun to wonder if any financial institution is safe, with banks and regulators worldwide analyzing the continued risk to the entire banking system.