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Dashboards are a crucial tool in your monitoring arsenal, as they allow you to visualize and correlate telemetry data from across your stack in a single place. Historically, Datadog offered two dashboard types: Screenboards, for pixel-level control on a canvas, and Timeboards, for troubleshooting a specific point in time. Now, we’re excited to introduce a new dashboard layout that combines the best of Timeboards and Screenboards in a single, seamless editing experience.

When Kubernetes launches and schedules workloads in your cluster, such as during an update or scaling event, you can expect to see short-lived spikes in the number of Pending pods. As long as your cluster has sufficient resources, Pending pods usually transition to Running status on their own as the Kubernetes scheduler assigns them to suitable nodes. However, in some scenarios, Pending pods will fail to get scheduled until you fix the underlying problem.

Datadog Notebooks simplify the way teams across an organization find and share knowledge. By bringing together live data and rich Markdown text, Notebooks help teams create powerful, data-driven documents—from runbooks and support playbooks to incident postmortems and data reports. And with collaboration functionalities like real-time editing and commenting, team members can simultaneously make changes to a document and gather feedback along the way.

Server Monitoring is referred to as consistent monitoring of all network infrastructure, related to servers to analyses their resource utilization trends & later optimize it for a smooth end-user experience. The concept of server monitoring is straight forward, it is the collection of data from servers & real time or historical data analysis to make sure that the network servers are free from impending issues are performing optimally thereby fulfilling their intended function.

AppSignal is your one-stop shop for application monitoring. Today, we’re releasing uptime monitoring. Simply add any endpoint you want to check for uptime and AppSignal will monitor it from locations around the globe, 24/7. Uptime monitoring expands our current feature set (error tracking, performance monitoring, metric dashboards, server metrics, and anomaly detection). All features are combined in a beautiful and easy-to-use interface, with a friendly pricing model for developers.

PostgreSQL monitoring with Prometheus is an easy thing to do thanks to the PostgreSQL Exporter. PostgreSQL is an open-source relational database with a powerful community behind it. It’s very popular due to its strong stability and powerful data types. In this article, you’ll learn the top 10 metrics in PostgreSQL monitoring, with alert examples, both for PostgreSQL instances in Kubernetes and AWS RDS PostgreSQL instances.