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The observability market is maturing. This evolution is clearly visible in the rise of OpenTelemetry, an open source framework for application performance monitoring and observability.

APM tools are Application Performance Monitoring tools that help to evaluate, analyze, and monitor the application's performance. APM is a part of Application Performance Management. However, when it comes to Performance Management at an enterprise level, it is a broader concept in Managing the whole application infrastructure.

Just like shopping on Black Friday, AWS re:Invent has become a post-Thanksgiving tradition for some of us at Datadog. We were excited to join tens of thousands of fellow AWS users and partners for this annual gathering that features new product announcements, technical sessions, networking, and fun. This year, we saw three themes emerge from the conference announcements and sessions.

Sometimes — not often, but every now and then — we come across an invention that is so remarkably useful, that we wonder: how did I survive without this? High speed internet comes to mind. So do GPS devices. And who wants to imagine a world without the cronut? Well, it’s time to add one more invention to the list: Proactive ScriptAssist. The Back Story Websites are not static things.

We all know about the great things Grafana dashboards can do, and configuring them as code makes it possible to get even more out of them. These days, Grafana resources can mostly be managed as code in a declarative manner, which enables code review, code reuse, and in general, better workflows. This guide presents a few as code tools you can use to declaratively manage Grafana resources, plus some tips and tricks on how to incorporate them efficiently into your own use cases.

Organizations have different data lakes they use to search, whether it is Splunk, Qradar, or Sumo Logic just to name a few. Exabeam (UEBA Advanced Analytics) sits on top of those existing data lakes and pulls specific sources by running continuous queries every few minutes into Exabeam. The image below shows a Splunk query to pull windows event logs into Exabeam Advanced Analytics over the port (8089). The query is complex.

You build it; you own it! It’s a simple mantra that has driven software development for years. The days of writing software and throwing it over the wall to operations teams are over. Instead, software development teams take ownership of what they do and own their own software operations. There is just one problem: Monitoring tools have not yet adopted the developer workflow. As a developer, the repository is the center of the workflow. It's the one single source of truth.