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Monitor Juniper network devices with Datadog

Juniper Networks provides a range of IT network and security devices, including routers, switches, access points, and firewalls. As you scale your on-prem infrastructure with potentially thousands of devices distributed across multiple locations, getting visibility into your entire network can easily become a pain point.

Accelerate your logs investigations with Watchdog Insights

If you’re investigating an incident, every minute means degraded performance or even downtime for customers. The causes of an issue often come from parts of your systems and applications that you would not think to check, and the sooner you can bring these to light, the better.

How Grafana and Prometheus work together

Let us get an insight on how Grafana and Prometheus work together for monitoring metrics. Application monitoring is a crucial feature for any successful software offering. Application monitoring in its simplest form refers to collecting metrics on an application and using those metrics to gain an insight to improve the performance and efficiency of the application. Think of it as a cycle. Grafana and Prometheus are probably the most prominent tools in the application monitoring and analytics space.

How hard is it to run your own Graphite?

How hard is it to run your own Graphite? Here’s one story of what someone had to go through! In this article, I want to share my story about what I went through to run my own Graphite and give some advice on how much you should be prepared both mentally and technically... ESPECIALLY if you are not a Graphite expert.

How to monitor AWS Lambda

How do we get started on monitoring AWS Lambda? Let me first introduce you to the term serverless computing. It doesn't matter if you have been in the tech industry only a few months, or you started writing code when Pascal was still considered cutting edge, you probably would have heard the term serverless computing thrown around in recent times. But what exactly is serverless computing?

Icinga for Windows: Management Console Preview (Experimental Feature)

Today we are very excited to share with you our new experimental feature for Icinga for Windows: The Management Console Our goal with this feature is to make the entire configuration and management of the Icinga Agent as well as the installation, distribution and automation as easy as possible - for all Icinga for Windows components. Let us know what you think about this feature!

Correlate Your Metrics, Logs & Traces with the curated OSS observability stack from Grafana Labs

Correlation between metrics, logs, and traces should be as effortless as possible. This helps you make better decisions and actions. The Grafana Labs open-source observability stack enables powerful correlations between your metrics, log, and traces. The key here is to have consistent metadata across the three pillars of observability. Let me demo you how this works in this video.

New Feature: Searching Through Samples in AppSignal

Your wishes are being granted. Search is now available for all AppSignal customers. 🎉 You can now quickly find specific samples inside of AppSignal. This is especially useful when searching for an error/slow request for a particular customer in a specific revision or request ID. You can access the search in AppSignal from any screen in an application. It’s located in the dark top bar. Let’s take a look at the new search in action.

Announcing Alert Grouping for the AIOps Early Warning System

Available for Enterprise and Enterprise MSP customers, the new Header Graph (Beta) feature is being rolled out in the v148 release. This time-series graph allows for easy alert grouping to cut down troubleshooting time and quickly identify the resources that are causing an alert storm.