As we continue to adopt a digital-first mentality globally, there’s a massive shift to the cloud happening within federal agencies. While the sector has traditionally been slower to adopt new technologies, these agencies are understanding the urgent need to transition from legacy on-premise systems to more scalable and secure, cloud-based architectures.
Akamai is a leading provider of content delivery network solutions around the world, handling many millions of HTTP requests per second. By Akamai’s estimates, its CDN platform delivers 15 to 30 percent of global web traffic. If you’re using Akamai to accelerate and protect the delivery of content to your users, we are pleased to announce that you can now use Datadog to monitor the utilization and performance of your CDN.
As a longtime systems engineer, Blerim Sheqa knows all about using tools like Grafana to debug issues in infrastructures. Currently the CPO of Icinga, an open source monitoring software, he gave a talk at GrafanaCon LA about how not to fail at visualization.
Coming back from Monitorama, I had a chance to sit back and start playing with some tools to see how they worked. Prometheus is a pretty ubiquitous tool in the monitoring space, it's pretty easy to spin up, and is open-source. Having a very active community of engaged developers means finding help articles or guides is easy. We are also going to use Grafana to build nicer looking graphs based on API queries from Prometheus.
