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Effortless Load Testing | Simon Aronsson (Load Impact / k6)

Load testing and performance monitoring used to be really hard and bothersome. Not any more! With modern code-first tools and visualisation, being on top of your service scalability and performance is no longer something that's reserved for the QA department. According to research by Google, 53% of mobile website visitors will leave if the page load duration exceeds three seconds. Armed with this knowledge, We'll go through how to implement load tests and performance monitoring around it as well as how to efficiently visualize it.

How to Use the Datadog CLI on Kubernetes | Datadog Tips & Tricks

In this video, you’ll learn how to use the Datadog command line interface (CLI) on Kubernetes to perform key tasks, including checking the status of the agent and viewing custom checks. The Datadog Agent CLI allows you to check the status of the Agents running on the pods in your Kubernetes clusters. It also provides various helpful commands, including starting and stopping the agent, viewing configured custom checks, and sending flares to the Datadog support team to automatically open troubleshooting tickets.

Datadog on RocksDB

Datadog is a monitoring and analytics platform that ingests trillions of data points per day, coming from more than 8,000 customers. Each of those is associated with metadata, mostly in the form of tags, and it can also be part of streams of related data points, which can then be explored, queried, or aggregated. RocksDB is used by many services at Datadog that are part of that metrics ingestion, aggregation, query, and index pipeline.

How to Manage Datadog Resources Using Terraform | Datadog Tips & Tricks

Terraform allows you to efficiently manage complex infrastructure environments, and Datadog is an important piece of those environments. With the Datadog provider, you can use Terraform to manage your Datadog resources as code, allowing you to create and edit resources with the same tool you’re already using for your infrastructure. This video will show you how to do just that through the example of creating a Datadog monitor.