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An Introduction to Log Analysis

If you think log files are only necessary for satisfying audit and compliance requirements, or to help software engineers debug issues during development, you’re certainly not alone. Although log files may not sound like the most engaging or valuable assets, for many organizations, they are an untapped reservoir of insights that can offer significant benefits to your business.

Introducing Adaptive Alerts: Detect application-level error trends

Adaptive Alerts is a new feature from Rollbar that adds to our reliable, informative and actionable alerts about unexpected issues in monitored applications and services. Adaptive Alerts uses anomaly detection to learn the standard behavior of enterprise applications, and alerts developers about atypical exception rates, reducing unwanted noise.

7 Trends in Database DevOps & Monitoring - Download the infographic

Earlier this year, we surveyed over 5,700 global IT professionals and asked them what the most pressing challenges they faced in Database DevOps and Monitoring are. We also asked specific questions to gauge what trends we could spot in the industry and compared the responses to the last 3-5 years of data we have.

State of IT Management Survey Report 2020-21

As we continue to adapt following the pandemic, which has impact us all both personally and professionally, we take this moment to commemorate the IT veterans we've lost to the pandemic. With the pandemic drastically changing the way we do business, we have conducted a study to understand the state of IT management at the height of these radical changes and analyzed how to offer a holistic approach to changing IT management needs to prepare for the post-pandemic IT world.

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The 15 best DevOps tools for 2021 and beyond

The integration of Development and Operations is a powerful recent approach to software development. If you're new to DevOps practices, or looking to improve your current processes, it can be tough to know which tool is best for your team. We've put together this list to help you make an informed decision on which tools should be part of your stack. Read on to discover the 15 best DevOps tools, from automated build tools to application performance monitoring platforms.

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Observability for Microsoft Teams; How, What, and Why?

As one of the leading enterprise collaboration software globally, Microsoft Teams helps remote workers come together and stay productive. But while IT already has tools to monitor Teams call quality metrics, the pandemic shifted the organizational landscape with all of us working remotely from home. Or at least work in a hybrid way! So what does that mean for Teams monitoring now? The shift necessitates a newer Microsoft Teams monitoring strategy approach that combines synthetics with real user monitoring (RUM) to get a complete seamless digital experience.

Monitor your HCP Vault cluster with Datadog

HashiCorp Cloud Platform (HCP) provides fully managed versions of some of HashiCorp’s most popular offerings, including Vault. With Vault, users have a centralized way to secure, store, and manage access to secrets across distributed systems. HCP Vault handles the day-to-day cluster maintenance, patches, and overall system security, making it easy to deploy a cluster without needing to host or manage your own infrastructure.

Understand the scope of user impact with Watchdog Impact Analysis

Watchdog is Datadog’s machine learning and AI engine, which leverages algorithms like anomaly detection to automatically surface performance issues in your infrastructure and applications. Without any manual setup or configuration, Watchdog generates a feed of Alerts—on anomalies such as latency spikes, elevated error rates, and network issues in cloud providers—to help you reduce your mean time to detection.

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Leveraging Your Integration Infrastructure

The investment your organization has made in integration infrastructure (i2) over the years was necessary as the organization and the IT infrastructure grew, but it has likely been considered a necessary evil by senior management. However now that investment can be leveraged in two important new ways.