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Grabbing the Datadog by the Tail

Datadog is a monitoring and analytics tool for information technology (IT) and DevOps teams that can be used to determine performance metrics as well as event monitoring for infrastructure and cloud services. The software can monitor services such as servers, databases, tools, and applications. Cribl Stream makes it easy to move data from anywhere, to anywhere. We take the saying to heart, and we also allow you to send our Cribl application metrics anywhere.

Building Dashboard and Dashboard Inputs in Cribl Search

This video demonstrates how to create “inputs” to Cribl Search dashboards. An Input is a control widget that we can add to our Dashboards to control how they execute. They allow the user to supply a range of inputs to customize one or many of the Searches in each of the panels on a given dashboard.

Distributed Tracing: Your Ultimate Guide

When all your IT systems, your apps and software, and your people are spread out, you need a way to see what’s happening in all these minute and separate interactions. That’s exactly what distributed tracing does. Distributed tracing is a way to tracking requests in applications and how those requests move from users and frontend devices through to backend services and databases.

Improvements to DSDL Container Build Process

We’re happy to announce that with the upcoming release of Splunk App for Data Science and Deep Learning (DSDL) 5.1.1 we’re significantly overhauling the build process for containers in DSDL. More and more customers are adopting DSDL for some of their most complex and advanced workloads. In this newest release, we’re making the process of deploying, building and maintaining containers for DSDL more modular, more secure, more robust, and more scalable as well as adding some new features!

The Importance of Microservices

What are microservices? Microservices are a software approach that creates applications as a loose coupling of specific services or functions, rather than as a single, “monolithic” program. A microservice architecture increases the speed and reliability with which large, complex applications are delivered. What makes a service a microservice? Microservices are defined not by how they’re coded, but by how they fit into a broader system or solution.