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New Integration: Declare FireHydrant Incidents from Checkly Alerts

Streamlining your incident management process is what we do best, and one of the ways we do that is by acting as the connective tissue across all of your applications. We’ve partnered with Checkly to bring you a new integration that empowers you to detect problems and resolve incidents faster.

Use Datadog's Notebooks API to programmatically manage your notebooks

Datadog Notebooks simplify the way teams across an organization find and share knowledge. By bringing together live data and rich Markdown text, Notebooks help teams create powerful, data-driven documents—from runbooks and support playbooks to incident postmortems and data reports. And with collaboration functionalities like real-time editing and commenting, team members can simultaneously make changes to a document and gather feedback along the way.

If everyone is AIOps - which AIOps is right for you?

With so many IT vendors claiming they provide AIOps platforms, how do you understand the differences between them, and decide what flavor of AIOPs to choose for your organization? Join us in a CTO Perspective discussion with Elik Eizenberg, CTO and co-founder at BigPanda, to find the answer. Read the skinny for a brief summary, then either lean back and watch the interview, or if you prefer to continue reading, take a few minutes to read the transcript. Enjoy!

Self-Service for Teams in Enterprise Alert

A few days ago I had an insightful conversation with one of our customers who inspired me to write this blog. He, like so many other customers, was facing the problem that his Enterprise Alert management overhead was increasing with each new team he added, as he had been managing resources such as event sources, notification channels and alert policies for the new teams as well. His question to us, therefore, was whether he could not also put these management tasks in the hands of the teams.

SRE Availability Metrics

How available is your website, service, or platform? What must you monitor and measure to ensure availability? How do you translate uptime into availability? This chart has numbers that every Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) should know. Below the chart, you will find answers to commonly asked questions about SRE and associated metrics.

A Day in the Life: Intelligent Observability at Work with our SRE, Dinesh

When I asked Charlie for permission to attend this year’s AICon (virtual, natch) I thought it would be a shoo-in; learning’s part of my OKRs after all. But he never makes things easy and his ‘yes’ came with a caveat that’s typical when dealing with him. This time, he claimed he didn’t have the budget for the ticket (a likely story!) and I’d have to find another way to get one.