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5 Things Developers Need to Know About Kubernetes Management

Kubernetes management can be daunting for developers who don’t have specialized understanding of the orchestration technology. Learning Kubernetes takes practice and time, a precious commodity for devs who are under pressure to deliver new applications. This post provides direction on what you need to know and what you can skip to take advantage of Kubernetes. Let’s start with five things you need to know.

Four powerful Alerting workflows

Since its release last month, Alerting has quickly ingrained itself into the incident response workflow at some of the most technically advanced companies in the world. We’re here to empower your team to do the same. In this blog, we’ll run through four common alerts that you can implement today to ensure you’re maximizing the full potential of Alerting.

Announcing support for Graviton2-powered AWS Fargate deployments

AWS Fargate is a serverless compute engine that allows you to deploy containerized applications on services like Amazon ECS without needing to provision or manage compute resources. Now, Datadog is proud to be a launch partner with Amazon for their support of AWS Fargate workloads running on Graviton2, Amazon’s proprietary ARM64 processor.

How to Keep Traces for Slow and Failed Requests

Today we are introducing Local Tail-Based sampling in Kamon Telemetry! We are going to tell you all about it in a little bit but before that, let’s take a couple minutes to explore what is sampling, how it is used nowadays, and what motivated us to including local tail sampling in Kamon Telemetry.

Datadog vs. Dynatrace vs. Scout

Application Performance Monitoring is undoubtedly the hottest tool to accelerate any product’s growth in the modern market. The term has grown from a simple performance tracking operation to full-fledged infrastructure, network, and application observability. This evolution has only helped bring more and more growth into products. It is essential to choose the best-suited monitoring solution for your apps since observability involves way too many moving pieces.