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Use Log Analytics to gain application performance, security, and business insights

Whether you’re investigating an issue or simply exploring your data, the ability to perform advanced log analytics is key to uncovering patterns and insights. Datadog Log Management makes it easy to centralize your log data, which you can then manipulate and analyze to answer complex questions.

Monitor MongoDB Atlas for Government with Datadog

MongoDB Atlas is a fully managed cloud database service for modern applications. Earlier this year, the MongoDB team released MongoDB Atlas for Government, a dedicated environment for US federal agencies and state, local, and education (SLED) entities that need to meet stringent security and compliance requirements.

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Strategies to avoid downtime and maintain business continuity

In March 2019, Facebook experienced a 14-hour outage that cost the company $90 million. In July 2018, Amazon lost up to $99 million on Prime Day after experiencing downtime. While these critical financial crises greatly impacted these industry leaders, both companies were able to recover from them eventually; however, many smaller organizations may not have the means to overcome a similar incident. As per Gartner, downtime costs on average $ 5,600 per minute; since IT operations vary from business to business, downtime could cost $140,000 per hour on the lower end or $540,000 per hour on the higher end.

Does A Multi-Cloud Strategy Mean Compromising on Application Performance?

Based on the Teneo customers I’ve spoken with in the last 12 months, adopting a ‘‘Cloud-First’, Multi-Cloud strategy is often a top priority for Infrastructure and Operations (I&O) teams. However, many organizations have multiple clouds and cloud services mixed with physical data centers and Co-Lo (co-locations). And as a result of running multiple applications and services stitched together, user experience suffers.

Top B2B & B2C UX Design Examples

33% of consumers will leave a brand they love after just one bad experience. And almost 80% of American consumers say that convenience and speed are among the most important factors to a good customer experience (according to PwC). So yes, good UX design can make or break your business’ product and customer relationships. Hence, products are more people-focused than ever before.

How Infrastructure Monitoring Can Support Your Digital Transformation Journey

Cloud deployments have overtaken that of on-premises in the enterprise application software market since 2020, and Gartner expects they will be double the size of on-premises by 2025. These changes reflect the fast evolution in IT infrastructure due to new technology, business models, and market demands. The movement toward cloud, mobility, and IoT continues to surge forward.

Adapting Icinga Web modules To Icinga DB

Icinga DB web has a better layout and is more user friendly. This makes monitoring more simple. Hence it would be nice if we could adapt all the Icinga modules to Icinga DB. In this blogpost, I will discuss how to adapt Icinga Web modules to Icinga DB. To do this, first and foremost, install and enable the Icinga DB module. Currently, monitoring backend is the default backend for all the modules.

Slack Outage of 2/22/22 - Good Morning! Here's 16 Minutes of Stress!

For some time now, people have understood the importance of early warning systems, whether for detecting earthquakes and tsunamis, military defense, or business and financial crises. Why should service providers, especially those delivering software as a service (SaaS,) be any different? In a world where time is money and minutes mean millions, it is vital for organizations to keep a very close eye on the supply and delivery chain of their service to their end users, both business and consumer.

Implementing distributed tracing in a nodejs application

In this article, we will implement distributed tracing for a nodejs application based on microservices architecture. To implement distributed tracing, we will be using open-source solutions - SigNoz and OpenTelemetry, so you can easily follow the tutorial. In modern microservices-based applications, it is difficult to understand how requests are performing across multiple services, infrastructure, and protocols.