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Getting Started with Go and InfluxDB

Conventional databases such as PostgreSQL or MongoDB are great at safekeeping the state of your system in a tabular or document format, but what about time-dependent data: systems metrics, IoT device measurement or application state change? For those things, you need a more suitable type of database, one designed to manage better semi-structured data with a time characteristic.

7 Things to Check Before Launching a Website

Launching a website is a process that takes numerous essential steps. As the launch date comes closer, the excitement might lead to an oversight here and there. You can prevent this by deploying patience and double-checking every part of your website before it goes live. It all comes down to the type of website you're planning to launch. The more features you're planning to have, the longer the pre-launch inspection is going to take.

NECA delivers 99.9% system uptime using Applications Manager

NECA is an allied association of local telecommunications providers in the United States that was instituted by the Federal Communications Commission. It aims to provide rural consumers across the country with telecommunications and broadband services at affordable prices. Its services also include economic forecasting, trend analysis, industry database management, and rate and tariff analysis.

Monitor your Synthetic private locations with Datadog

Datadog Synthetic private locations play a key role in your organization’s test infrastructure by serving as highly customizable points of presence (e.g., data centers, geographic locations) for running synthetic tests on internal services. You can deploy private locations using the orchestrator of your choice, enabling you to seamlessly roll them out and scale them with the rest of your container fleet.

Monitor Confluent Cloud with Datadog

Confluent Cloud is a fully managed, cloud-hosted streaming data service. Enterprise customers use Confluent Cloud for real-time event streaming within cloud-scale applications. We’re excited to announce a new integration between Datadog and Confluent Cloud, which enables users to get deep visibility into their Confluent Cloud environment with just a few clicks. In this post, we’ll introduce how to set up the integration and start monitoring key metrics from your clusters.

Log Management Guide: Why You Should Track Logs?

IT experts agree that log management and monitoring is one of the most effective ways to keep IT infrastructure performing optimally. Logs play a vital role in improving performance, enhancing security, and detecting issues. But at the same time, a lot of people don’t use logs to the best of their ability. This guide will not only introduce you to log management but also reveal which logs to track and what information they are giving to you.

Windows Event Log Best Practices for Operations Teams

The Windows Event log is an essential tool for administrators to investigate and diagnose potential system issues, but it can also be a daunting task to gain real value and separate useful log entries from noisy non-essential activity. Depending on the level of logging that can be useful, Windows events can span system issues, application-specific issues, and also dive into security type issues around unauthorized access, login failures, and unusual behavior.

Development Environment Observability with Sentry

At Sentry, we’re always looking for innovative ways to dogfood our product. Over the last year we added Sentry’s error monitoring to our developer environment so that we could better understand the health of it. In this blog post I’m going to touch on how fragile local development environments can be, how we brought observability into what’s happening by introducing Sentry, and what outcomes it has driven for our engineering organization.