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Debug source code in real time with Rookout's Datadog App

Earlier this year we launched Datadog Apps, which seamlessly integrate functionality from third-party tools into Datadog’s centralized monitoring platform. This project has enabled us to collaborate with some of our partners, such as PagerDuty and LaunchDarkly, to extend the Datadog UI and provide our customers with new solutions for incident management, feature flag optimization, and more.

Key metrics for monitoring Azure SQL databases

Microsoft Azure SQL Database is a platform-as-a-service (PaaS) database offering for modern cloud applications. It’s a fully managed service that runs on the latest version of the SQL Server database engine, enabling you to create highly available and performant database instances without needing to maintain hardware upgrades, patches, or backups.

Tools for collecting Azure SQL Database data

In Part 1 of this series, we discussed key metrics for monitoring Microsoft Azure SQL databases. We also looked at how your database resource and audit logs complement metrics to provide more insight into database performance, activity, and security. In this post, we’ll show you how to collect metrics and logs from your database instances and monitor them with Azure’s monitoring and reporting tools.

Monitor Azure SQL databases with Datadog

In Part 2 of this series, we showed you how to monitor Azure SQL Database metrics and logs using the Azure platform. In this post, we will look at how you can use Datadog to monitor your Azure SQL databases alongside other technologies in your infrastructure. Datadog provides turn-key integrations for Azure along with more than 500 other technologies, enabling you to track long-term performance trends across all systems in your infrastructure, not just your SQL databases.

Use Datadog's GitHub and source code integrations to streamline troubleshooting

GitHub Apps is a service that helps you automate key processes in your workflow. Datadog now uses GitHub Apps to interact directly with the GitHub API, enabling you to add valuable context to your notebooks. And once you’ve also integrated Datadog with your source code, you can access links to Git repositories and inline code snippets for stack traces.

Monitor Kubernetes with Fairwinds Insights' offering in the Datadog Marketplace

Fairwinds Insights is Kubernetes governance and security software that enables DevOps teams to monitor and prevent configuration problems in their infrastructure and applications. Not only does Fairwinds simplify Kubernetes complexity, but it also reduces risk by surfacing security and reliability issues in your Kubernetes clusters.

The Log4j Log4Shell vulnerability: Overview, detection, and remediation

On December 9, 2021, a critical vulnerability in the popular Log4j Java logging library was disclosed and nicknamed Log4Shell. The vulnerability is tracked as CVE-2021-44228 and is a remote code execution vulnerability that can give an attacker full control of any impacted system. In this blog post, we will: We will also look at how to leverage Datadog to protect your infrastructure and applications.

Monitor and optimize S3 storage with Amazon S3 Storage Lens metrics

With Amazon S3’s scalable object storage, you can store and manage billions of objects across multiple AWS accounts, regions, and storage classes. S3 Storage Lens provides 29 useful metrics that give you deeper visibility into your S3 usage and activity across your entire organization. We are proud to be a pre-integrated AWS partner using the new CloudWatch publishing option to bring S3 Storage Lens metrics into Datadog for enhanced S3 storage monitoring.

Secure HashiCorp Vault with Datadog Cloud SIEM

HashiCorp Vault provides centralized storage and management of passwords, API keys, tokens, and other secrets that distributed applications can use to operate securely. Vault clients—services and applications that access secrets programmatically, as well as users who interact with a Vault server—can create, update, and read secrets based on the permissions you grant them.

Monitor the Azure Cosmos DB integrated cache with Datadog

Azure Cosmos DB is a fully managed NoSQL database that scales automatically with load and supports multiple APIs. This makes it easy to incorporate with your applications while removing the need to maintain your own database servers. The Cosmos DB integrated cache—which is now in public preview—is a new offering that can help reduce costs and improve performance for Azure Cosmos DB.