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Boost productivity across teams using new monitor permissions

For IT managers, the workload only seems to keep piling up. That trend was glaringly evident, according to 86% of respondents to a recent IT industry survey who said their workloads have increased post-pandemic. Just because workloads are increasing doesn’t mean they have fall into the lap of one or two individuals if you’re using monitor permissions to your advantage.

Use Datadog's Sourcegraph extension to navigate code and visualize service dependencies

Sourcegraph is a universal code search tool that enables you to easily navigate and understand all of your code, regardless of the number of repositories you have and where they’re hosted. Its built-in code intelligence feature lets you jump to the definition and references of functions and variables, helping you learn new codebases faster.

6 ways your organization can benefit from a network management solution

In today’s world, businesses depend on the internet and networks for nearly all their operations. Most large-scale corporations from banks to IT services have their critical operations built around a network. With network types ranging from wired and wireless to virtual environments, network management has only become increasingly complex, and network administrators need all the help they can get.

Tracing on the Race Track

Today is test day at Curborough Sprint Track, and the University of Nottingham’s Race Team is taking its creation out for a spin. Frankie is their fully electric 2WD vehicle, able to achieve speeds of up to 80mph (129 km/h). The Team uses Tracealyzer to test the functionality of their embedded software; while writing the code, to record the trace while Frankie is running, and to review the data afterwards. And with great results.

Website Change Monitoring - What is it & why your business needs it?

Website change detection is a technique that alerts relevant people when a website is modified or updated. A web crawler can review a website on a regular basis to see whether there have been any changes since the previous time it was checked. Monitoring a web page is considered an important step in marketing, sales and advertising, and product support initiatives.

Getting Started with the InfluxDB API

This article was written by Nicolas Bohorquez. Scroll below for the author’s picture and bio. Time series databases, like InfluxDB, index data by time. They are very efficient at recording constant streams of data, like server metrics, application monitoring data, sensor reports, and any data containing a timestamp. Data in a time series database is always written with the most recent data values but with the previous values not updated.

How a company saved 32k hours of IT support and $1.6M on their Windows Migration

A Windows migration is like taking out the trash–you can always delay it, but you’ll have to do it at some point (and you’ll be so happy once it’s done). Unlike taking out the trash, however, the risk of failure throughout the entire migration process is extremely high, especially when you consider all the moving parts.

From eBPF to CI/CD: 12 emerging trends in observability

As businesses accelerate digital transformations and cloud adoption to better serve customers and employees in the face of the global pandemic, operational complexity has also mounted. To untangle these complexities and enable executive visibility into IT ecosystem , business leaders are increasingly looking to observability solutions as a strategic investment.

How to Monitor SD WAN Networks | Obkio

To truly see the performance & promise of your SD-WAN network, you need to monitor: How to Monitor SD-WAN Networks With the increasing use of cloud-based apps, businesses are more reliant than ever on the Internet to deliver WAN traffic. So they're migrating from MPLS networks to hybrid WAN architectures and SD-WAN technology. But many businesses lack visibility of their SD-WAN network. So here's how to achieve the visibility you need to monitor your SD-WAN service.