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How to Overcome Datadog Log Management Challenges

Datadog has made a name for itself as a popular cloud-native application performance monitoring tool, measuring a system’s health and status based on the telemetry data it generates. This telemetry includes machine-generated data, such as logs, metrics and traces. Cloud based applications and infrastructure generate millions (even billions) of logs – and analyzing them can generate a wealth of insights for DevOps, security, product teams and more.

Icinga Camp Berlin 2022: Blerim Sheqa How Companies use Icinga by Blerim Sheqa

During the past months we’ve been in direct contact with enterprises to understand their Icinga story. As result we created multiple customer stories which differ in their use case. I want to exemplify how Icinga meets different requirements of organizations and helps them cover their monitoring demands.

Icinga Camp Berlin 2022: Current State of Icinga DB by Eric Lippmann

In recent years, the number of servers, virtual machines, services, applications, etc. that our customers and users monitor with Icinga has increased significantly. For very large environments, the IDO can be a performance bottleneck. With Icinga DB we’ve rethought everything to allow users to monitor massive amounts of data and bring exclusive features that weren’t possible before.

Icinga Camp Berlin 2022: Meerkat - a new Icinga Dashboarding tool by Dave Kempe

Meerkat is an Open Source dashboarding tool, written in Go and javascript. It allow users to drag and drop Icinga API objects onto a background, plays sounds and even embed videos. Dave will give a tour of its features and a guide on setup and usage, with real-world examples.

Networking 101: What is a VLAN?

The idea of a VLAN, or Virtual Local Area Network, is simple enough, right? It’s hard to imagine any work in a modern networking/IT space without having encountered, set up, or managed a VLAN. Well if that’s all you needed to know about VLANs, we’d be done here, but there’s a bit more to it. To cover our bases: In most modern networks the primary purpose of the LAN is to provide connectivity to a wider network, most notably the internet.

Expedite infrastructure investigations with Kubernetes Anomalies

Modern Kubernetes environments are becoming increasingly complex. In 2021, Datadog analyzed real-world usage data from more than 1.5 billion containers and found that the average number of pods per organization had doubled over the course of two years. Organizations running containers also tend to deploy more monitors than companies that don’t leverage containers, pointing to the increased need for monitoring in these environments.

How a global leader in car audio technology reduced its downtime by 40% in 8 months with Applications Manager

As a pioneer of audio electronics solutions for all in-vehicle communication demands, this organization has delivered an enhanced driving experience to more than 50 million vehicles across the globe. With over 60 years of experience, this organization has been a trailblazer in the audio electronics industry. It has been recognized by Guinness World Records, NASSCOM, and many more for its contributions to the world of audio technology.