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Is it time to migrate your data center applications to the cloud? Get key considerations and a step-by-step migration path. Migrating your on-premises data center to the cloud can seem like a daunting task, from deciding on the right cloud deployment model to ensuring that your network connectivity is secure and scalable. For many companies, the question isn’t whether to migrate, but how to do it efficiently and with minimal disruption.

Enter Hyperview’s sensor-level access control—a revolutionary approach that transforms this dynamic. By enabling granular access to individual sensors within shared environments, Hyperview empowers colocation providers to deliver the visibility their clients need while maintaining strict security and operational simplicity.

Since the Datadog Model Context Protocol (MCP) Server first launched in Preview, Datadog has experienced an overwhelming amount of interest and feedback from customers. We appreciate those who requested access to test our product, provided feedback, and shared their stories of how the MCP Server helped them overcome engineering challenges.

This guest blog post is authored by Nick Vecellio, Principal Engineer and Co-founder of NoBS, a Premier Datadog Partner specializing in hands-on Datadog migrations and optimizations. At NoBS, we help enterprises migrate their observability stack to Datadog. Teams often come to us after a migration has technically “worked,” but the new setup requires optimization tweaks to provide the clarity, reliability, or operational benefits they’re looking for.

Competitor monitoring reports often end up as data graveyards, filled with information nobody acts on. The difference between reports that gather dust and reports that drive decisions comes down to design choices made before the first data point gets collected. To get the most from your competitor monitoring, building a comprehensive and actionable report is key.

In today’s world, even a missed call can cause concern. Was it important? Who was trying to reach you? Or was it just another spammer? The question who called me from this phone number has become extremely relevant. Not only ordinary users feel this relevance, but also small businesses, security services, and companies that strive to maintain accurate contact databases. In response to this increase in unwanted calls and fraud, specialized web applications have emerged.

It's 2 AM. The Network Is Down. Where Do You Start? You get the call. Users can't connect. VoIP is choppy. Something is broken somewhere between your office and the cloud. You open your monitoring dashboard and it says something is wrong, but not where. Not why. Not since when? So you do what IT teams have done for decades. You open a terminal, run a traceroute, SSH into the router, pull up SNMP, check the firewall logs.

This major update has a wealth of new features.

Your software is sending data to Honeycomb. Now where is the dashboard you want? The best dashboard is one created just for your application, or your service, or your team. You can get that in minutes with the Honeycomb MCP. Open your coding agent in your IDE, or on the command line in your code repository. Configure the Honeycomb MCP and authenticate with Read and Write permissions. Now tell it what you want. You can be high-level: Make me a service health board for the frontend service.