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Identifying EC2 Right Sizing Opportunities for Cost Optimization | Datadog Tips & Tricks

May 4, 2020 By Datadog In Datadog
In this video, you’ll learn how to identify right sizing opportunities for your EC2 instances utilizing Datadog metric dashboards. Optimizing your cloud footprint for cost efficiency can be a huge task, especially for large and scaling environments. Utilizing time series data and toplists, Datadog dashboards allow you to see chronically underutilized EC2s in your AWS environment. Template variables allow you to sort EC2s by teams and instance types, so you quickly identify the scope of cost saving opportunities across your organization.
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The Expensive History of APM

May 4, 2020 By Patrick Hubbard In SolarWinds
When done well, application performance monitoring (APM) is a magical and irreplaceable tool. However, over the years, enterprises have sometimes paid dearly to implement it. APM’s task seems simple enough—replace emotional user anecdotes about application performance with quantifiable, actionable data. But the devil can certainly be in the details with APM.
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NodeJS Instrumentation - Adding Custom Tags to Spans | Datadog Tips & Tricks

Apr 30, 2020 By Datadog In Datadog
In part 1 of this 4 part series, you’ll learn how to use manual instrumentation to add additional detail to traces. We’ll add new tags, or attributes, to the spans generated by our NodeJS application, allowing for more insightful data visualizations in App Analytics.
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NodeJS Instrumentation - Creating Custom Spans for Method-Level Visibility | Datadog Tips & Tricks

Apr 30, 2020 By Datadog In Datadog
In part 2 of this 4 part series, you’ll learn how to instrument your NodeJS application to capture custom method-level spans, allowing visibility into how specific methods behave in your application. Flame graphs allow for deep insight into the performance of your code. During instrumentation, we can capture custom spans for deeper layers of visibility in the resulting flame graphs. In this video, we use instrumentation to capture a method-level span, allowing us to see the performance of that specific method in our flame graphs in the Datadog UI.
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NodeJS Instrumentation - Adding Analyzed Spans for Improved Data Analytics | Datadog Tips & Tricks

Apr 30, 2020 By Datadog In Datadog
In part 4 of this 4 part series, you’ll learn how to add Analyzed Spans to your traces to open up even more data search and aggregation capabilities via App Analytics. In this video, we will walk you through how you can turn any span into an Analyzed Span. Analyzed Spans function like the root spans of a trace, allowing us to turn the tags embedded in them into facets for advanced data aggregation and searching in App Analytics. You can check out how to add tags to spans—and how to utilize them in App Analytics—in our first video of the series here (link to the first video).
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Integrating eG Enterprise with Microsoft Power BI for Application and Infrastructure Performance Analytics

Apr 30, 2020 By Priya Balasubramaniam In eG Innovations

Microsoft Power BI is a business analytics solution providing interactive visualizations and business intelligence capabilities from data and provides an interface that is simple enough for admins to create their own reports and dashboards. Data inputs to Power BI can come from multiple sources – Excel worksheets, CSV files, database tables, log files, the web, etc. It then employs smart visualizations and built-in AI technologies on that data to turn it into interactive insights.

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