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Exception Perceptions: Everything is Cool When You're Part of a Team

Welcome, and thanks for joining us! Today on Exception Perceptions, we’re inviting Sentry Product Manager Sara Gilford to give us all the dirt on collaboration and ownership. That’s right; we’re uncovering the juicy details of who and how folks on teams within Sentry should be notified when issues pop up in their application.

Watchdog: Auto-detect performance anomalies without setting alerts

With anomaly detection, outlier detection, forecasting, and composite alerting, Datadog enables you to reliably alert the right people at the right time. But what happens when latency starts to increase, or error rates spike, in areas of your application where you haven’t set alerts? That’s what Watchdog is for.

Business iQ Enhancements in 4.5: Connecting the dots between applications and business

Business iQ helps enterprises correlate application performance with critical business metrics in real-time. In addition to providing end-to-end visibility into multi-step complex business workflows, customers can now leverage out-of-the-box dashboards and metrics with no manual configuration required.

Zipkin vs Jaeger: Getting Started With Tracing

Request tracing is the ultimate insight tool. Request tracing tracks operations inside and across different systems. Practically speaking, this allows engineers to see the how long an operation took in a web server, database, application code, or entirely different systems, all presented along a timeline. Request tracing is especially valuable in distributed systems where a single transaction (such as “create an account”) spans multiple systems.

A Guide To Service Level Objectives, Part 1: SLOs & You

Four steps to ensure that you hit your targets – and learn from your successes. Whether you’re just getting started with DevOps or you’re a seasoned pro, goals are critical to your growth and success. They indicate an endpoint, describe a purpose, or more simply, define success. But how do you ensure you’re on the right track to achieve your goals?