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OpenTelemetry Exporters - Types and Configuration Steps

In this post, we will talk about OpenTelemetry exporters. OpenTelemetry exporters help in exporting the telemetry data collected by OpenTelemetry. OpenTelemetry frees you from any kind of vendor lock-in by letting you export the collected telemetry data to any backend of your choice. In modern distributed systems, efficiently collecting, transmitting, and analyzing telemetry data from diverse sources poses a significant challenge.
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Better CI/CD with GitHub Actions and deployment tracking

Understanding the impact of each of your deployments is crucial, especially as they become increasingly frequent. Chances are, your team is either aiming to increase shipping velocity or has already started deploying "continuously" (which is to say, multiple times a day). The biggest tech teams at the likes of Amazon and Google deploy thousands of times daily, and Atlassian has found that 75% of enterprise DevOps teams call deployment frequency their most important success criteria. And while CD comes with a host of well-established benefits, it also introduces a heightened risk of introducing new errors and issues.

Planning and Baselining a Migration to Azure SQL

A migration from on-premises SQL Server to Azure SQL offers many customers a number of advantages. It can enable scalability, reduce costs, enhance security, ensure high availability, and simplifies maintenance. Many organizations are looking to equivalent cloud services to move on-prem workloads such as SQL databases to the cloud, freeing themselves from the overheads of purchasing, configuring and maintaining physical hardware and infrastructure.

This Month in Datadog: Integrations for AI/LLM Tech Stacks, Serverless Monitoring Releases, and more

Datadog is constantly elevating the approach to cloud monitoring and security. This Month in Datadog updates you on our newest product features, announcements, resources, and events. This month, we put the Spotlight on a trio of serverless monitoring releases..

APM Today: Application Performance Monitoring Explained

Application Performance Monitoring (APM) is a technology approach that provides real-time information about how your software applications are performing. With a comprehensive view into application health and availability, APM can do things like: Both the importance and the usage of APM has grown in recent years. That’s because companies rely on increasingly complex applications to run their businesses. Here is what you need to know about Application Performance Monitoring.

Understanding Mobile User Journeys

Ensure each user has the best and most optimal mobile experience possible by understanding mobile user journeys. Bring teams together to understand how a user interacts with the mobile application in order to streamline operations and improve their experience. By leveraging data collectors, teams can gain an even deeper understanding of specific items in a shopping cart that was lost, for example, and their associated revenue. This information helps build a conversion chart giving the business an indication of how severe the problem may be to then help prioritize remediation efforts.

What is Shadow IT? Will AI make this more challenging?

Shadow IT is a term used to describe IT systems, applications, or services that are used within an organization without the explicit approval, knowledge, or oversight of the IT department or the organization’s management. It typically arises when employees or departments adopt and use software, hardware, or cloud services for their specific needs without going through the official IT procurement or security processes.