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As up to 2 million Cisco devices face active exploitation, automated SecOps response becomes essential.

For twenty years, Certificate Authorities ran the perfect protection racket. The CAs had a beautiful monopoly. Browsers needed them to keep users safe. Websites needed them to look legitimate. Everyone paid up, nobody asked too many questions. Then the cryptography of most certificates (SHA-1) got shattered, and the browsers realized they’d been played.

When SaaS tools go down, teams need fast, reliable alerts right where they communicate. Now, with the StatusGator integration for Discord, you can receive real-time third-party outage alerts directly in your server. Whether you’re monitoring the status of AWS, Slack, GitHub, or Google Workspace, StatusGator keeps your team informed instantly when disruptions happen.

In an era of remote work and virtual meetings, Zoom has emerged as a lifeline, connecting people across distances and facilitating seamless collaboration. However, like any technological tool, it's not without its fair share of challenges. From occasional performance hiccups to frustrating connection issues, navigating the world of Zoom can sometimes be a daunting task.

Datadog and Splunk are both leading tools for monitoring and observability. Each offers a range of features designed to help you understand and manage your data. Datadog provides tools for tracking application performance and analyzing logs in real-time. Splunk, meanwhile, is known for its powerful log analysis and search capabilities. In this post, we will compare Datadog and Splunk on important aspects like APM, log management, search capabilities, and more.

We’re excited to announce the rollout of Cloud 66 Deploy v3 — a major evolution of our deployment platform built from the ground up for flexibility, modern workloads, and future growth. While Deploy v2 has served many teams well over the years, Deploy v3 brings a fresh architecture and new capabilities designed for today’s cloud-native needs. Here’s what you need to know.

This is part 2 of a 3-part series on SQL performance improvements. A few weeks ago, we massively improved the performance of the dashboard & website by optimizing some of our SQL queries. In this post, we'll dive deeper into the optimisations of queries with indexes.

2025 is winding down, but cloud and AI spending is still heating up. September brought some big news that could impact your bottom line. Here are the can’t-miss cloud cost updates from last month: Enjoy!

When incidents occur, clear communication can be just as important as fast remediation. Your internal teams need timely updates to stay aligned, and your users want to know what is happening and when they can expect a fix. Without a reliable way to proactively share updates, support teams can get flooded with tickets and customer trust can erode. Datadog Status Pages, now generally available, makes it easy to keep everyone informed through a public or internal web page during outages.

Integrations have always been central to the Datadog platform, enabling customers to collect the data they need directly from the technologies they use every day. By unifying signals from infrastructure and applications to security and SaaS applications, teams gain both high-level visibility and the ability to drill into the details that matter the most. With more than 1,000 integrations now available, the Datadog ecosystem continues to expand alongside the platforms our customers rely on.