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StatusCast : Conquer the Storm

Embark on a journey to conquer the storm with StatusCast! Watch our latest video to discover how our powerful incident communication and status page solutions empower you to navigate through challenges seamlessly. Unleash the potential to communicate effectively during disruptions and emerge stronger. Don't miss out—watch now and revolutionize your incident management game!

Datadog on Design Systems

Over the last five years, the Datadog platform has grown. We added Application Performance Monitoring to complement our core infrastructure monitoring product, Log Management, Synthetic and Real User Monitoring, and more. For an enterprise software platform to be successful, the whole has to be greater than the sum of its parts. In Datadog’s case, this means users must be able to connect different types of data, pivot seamlessly from one context to another, and follow the thread of an investigation wherever it might lead.

Test-driven development (TDD) explained

Test-driven development (TDD) is a software development process that involves writing tests for your code before you write the code. This approach has transformed the development methodology around testing. While the traditional waterfall model of software development was linear, with testing occurring near the end of one long timeline, TDD makes testing an ongoing, iterative process.

How to Monitor PostgreSQL With Telegraf and MetricFire

Monitoring your PostgreSQL instance is essential for maintaining performance, reliability, security, and compliance. It allows you to stay ahead of potential issues, optimize resource utilization, and ensure a smooth and efficient operation of your database system. Database monitoring helps you can pinpoint problematic queries, analyze execution plans, and make necessary adjustments to improve overall application responsiveness.

Monitoring-as-Code for Scaling Observability

As data volumes continue to grow and observability plays an ever-greater role in ensuring optimal website and application performance, responsibility for end-user experience is shifting left. This can create a messy situation with hundreds of R&D members from back-end engineers, front-end teams as well as DevOps and SREs, all shipping data and creating their own dashboards and alerts.

DevOps Change Management Resources

The DevOps Change Management Content Hub is a set of resources for modern software teams who struggle to align their DevOps automation with their change management requirements. In our experience, cloud native teams with lots of automation struggle when they run into a compliance event like an audit, or need to achieve a security standard like SOC2 or ISO27001. How do you comply without adopting old fashioned change management practices and screwing up your DevOps?

How to easily add application monitoring in Kubernetes pods

The Elastic APM K8s Attacher lets the Elastic APM agent auto-attach to the application in your pods by adding just one annotation to your deployment The Elastic® APM K8s Attacher allows auto-installation of Elastic APM application agents (e.g., the Elastic APM Java agent) into applications running in your Kubernetes clusters. The mechanism uses a mutating webhook, which is a standard Kubernetes component, but you don’t need to know all the details to use the Attacher.