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January 2023

Datadog's commitment to OpenTelemetry and the open source community

The OpenTelemetry (OTel) project is an open source initiative with the goal of providing vendor-neutral standards and tools that enable users to collect telemetry from any source in their environment and send it to any backend. A core tenet of Datadog is to provide a single, unified platform for customers to easily collect and monitor all of their observability data, regardless of where it comes from.

Use library injection to auto-instrument and trace your Kubernetes applications with Datadog APM

Many organizations rely on distributed tracing in Datadog APM to gain end-to-end visibility into the performance of their Kubernetes applications. But as teams grow, it can become impractical for them to manually configure each new application with the libraries and environment variables needed for tracing.

Monitor Boundary on the HashiCorp Cloud Platform with Datadog

HashiCorp Boundary provides a secure way to manage remote access to applications and infrastructure without exposing the underlying network or credentials. Launched two years ago as an open source solution, HashiCorp recently announced a fully managed version on the HashiCorp Cloud Platform (HCP), enabling you to manage identity-based authorizations, user and target onboarding, and more for dynamic environments.

How OpenTelemetry Powers Observability @ Canva

Canva is an online design platform with a mission to empower everyone in the world to design anything and publish anywhere. To guarantee our customers have the best experience using our products, Canva engineers rely on the tools and products provided by the Observability team to measure and quantify critical application health and performance metrics. Canva’s Observability team uses OpenTelemetry components to collect, transform and export standardised telemetry data from our applications and platforms. Canva has been an early adopter of OTel using OTel SDK for tracing and the collector gateway to process and export telemetry to various tools. In this talk we’ll take a deeper look at how Canva uses OTel in our current observability workflows.

Monitor Tanzu Kubernetes Grid on vSphere with Datadog

With vSphere and Tanzu Kubernetes Grid (TKG), VMware enables enterprise organizations to combine the economic advantages of virtual machines (VMs) with the agility, portability, and scalability provided by Kubernetes. vSphere is VMware’s platform for the provisioning and management of VMs.

Best practices to prevent alert fatigue

As your environment changes, new trends can quickly make your existing monitoring less accurate. At the same time, building alerts after every new incident can turn a straightforward strategy into a convoluted one. Treating monitoring as a one-time or reactive effort can both result in alert fatigue. Alert fatigue occurs when an excessive number of alerts are generated by monitoring systems or when alerts are irrelevant or unhelpful, leading to a diminished ability to see critical issues.

Identify and resolve incidents faster with InsightFinder's offering in the Datadog Marketplace

InsightFinder is a SaaS platform that uses AI-backed predictive analytics to predict and prevent production incidents. Using InsightFinder with Datadog, you can quickly identify hidden correlations in your application metrics, logs, and events and address application issues before they devolve into production outages and create customer impact.