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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.

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.

Crash Course in Crash Grouping

Supporting large applications with enormous crash volumes can be a real pain in the hindquarters. It is extraordinarily difficult for organizations to optimally dispatch engineering resources without excellent data and proper tooling. At BugSplat, we recently upgraded the tooling we provide to developers so that they can group related crashes and better target their support efforts, deliver more stable applications, and deliver more value to their customers.

Why Are IT Pros Hesitant to Deploy Windows 11?

A key aspect of my job is to speak to End-User Computing (EUC) professionals on a regular basis—analysts, customers, partners, etc.—to better understand their challenges and objectives. Unsurprisingly, one topic has been coming up a lot lately: Windows 11. Surprisingly, nobody wants to actually deploy it. Or, at least, not right now. Why? After countless discussions, 4 reasons were made clear for their reluctance with Windows 11: These are all valid points.

5 Misconceptions About Cloud Cost Optimization Tools

Unless you are one of the 1% of enterprises that have zero workloads running in the publice cloud, you need a cloud cost optimization tool. Yes, you do. And if you have workloads running in multiple public clouds—which somewhere in the neighborhood of 85% of enterprises do—you really need a cloud cost optimization tool. If I’m preaching to the choir, feel free to skip to the end of this article where you’ll find a link to try Virtana Optimize for free.

The Importance of Observability for the SRE

The term Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) first appeared in Google in the early 2000s. In Google’s 2016 SRE Book, Benjamin Treynor Sloss wrote that, generally speaking, “an SRE team is responsible for the availability, latency, performance, efficiency, change management, monitoring, emergency response, and capacity planning of their service(s).” This means that the SRE teams at Google decide how a system should run in production as well as how to make it run that way.

Docker Logging: How Do Logs Work With Docker Containers?

Docker containers are a great way to create lightweight, portable, and self-contained application environments. Logging is critical for every application since it gives valuable information for troubleshooting, evaluating performance issues, and drawing an overall picture of the behavior of your architecture. This article presents a thorough tutorial covering all you need to know to start with Docker logging. It also provides some recommended practices for optimizing the logs of your containerized apps.

Reducing MTTR and tracking SLAs with Grafana Cloud

Attracting and retaining top developer talent is a No. 1 priority for a lot of companies these days, including location technology company TomTom. As both the builder of the world’s largest developer community and an employer of thousands of developers, TomTom is always looking for developer-friendly tools to help their employees feel productive, efficient, and inspired.

Why Mixing Microsoft Teams, PBXs and PSTNs is a Challenge

The work landscape has changed dramatically over the past two years and it has been a challenge for an organizations IT teams to keep the workforce connected. For many businesses, Microsoft Teams has become a core part of their efforts to keep connected but supporting the Microsoft Teams infrastructure has been something many IT departments have had to learn on the fly. Pre-pandemic, businesses might have had thousands of employees working in a handful of offices.