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Monitor Azure Service Health events with Datadog

Azure Service Health continuously notifies you of issues that may affect the availability of your environment, such as service incidents, planned maintenance periods, or regional outages. We’ve recently enhanced our Azure integration to include additional support for monitoring Service Health issues, enabling you to keep tabs on the health of your Azure environment and take proactive measures to mitigate downtime.

How to Monitor RabbitMQ Performance: Tools & Metrics You Should Know About

Nowadays, most applications we build are composed of microservices and distributed in nature. In such a setup, communication between these microservices is crucial, but can, unfortunately, cause some headaches. The first thing I check when I’m troubleshooting a bug in production is inter-service communication. Having a reliable tool at your disposal to take care of this can reduce a lot of stress. RabbitMQ, a hybrid messaging broker, is one such tool.

Using NoSQL Databases as Backend Storage for Grafana

Grafana is a popular way of monitoring and analysing data. You can use it to build dashboards for visualizing, analyzing, querying, and alerting on data when it meets certain conditions. In this post, we’ll look at an overview of integrating data sources with Grafana for visualizations and analysis, connecting NoSQL systems to Grafana as data sources, and look at an in-depth example of connecting MongoDB as a Grafana data source.

What's the Most Powerful Tool in Your Security Arsenal?

Trying to work out the best security tool is a little like trying to choose a golf club three shots ahead – you don’t know what will help you get to the green until you’re in the rough. Traditionally, when people think about security tools, firewalls, IAM and permissions, encryption, and certificates come to mind. These tools all have one thing in common – they’re static.

How to Take Data Stored in InfluxDB Cloud 2 and Use It in a "Switch" Node within Node-Red

This video shows you how to take data that is stored in InfluxDB Cloud 2 and use it in a "Switch" node within Node-Red. In our example, we read the average house temperature and decide whether or not the heating should be switched on.

Nuxeo: Developing resilient services and delivering outstanding customer experiences with Datadog

Joe Quinto and Stephen Bouzan, of Nuxeo, a content services platform, talk about how Datadog helps them stay one or two steps ahead of their customers in identifying and responding to issues–so their customers can focus on building smarter content applications and getting to market faster.

Network Monitoring and Its Best Practices

All networks, no matter how sophisticated, are vulnerable to attack from outsiders. They can also face compromise from poor program integration, outdated software, lagging connections, and insufficient bandwidth. These issues impede the efficiency of your workforce and can frustrate clients who depend on reaching you through reliable communication methods. A technologically advanced network needs constant attention to run at peak efficiency.

Network Performance Monitoring: The Tools and Strategies

In this post, we are going to look at different tools and strategies for Network Performance Monitoring. To follow along with this blog article, make sure to book a demo and sign up for MetricFire's free trial where a lot of our customers are doing network performance monitoring using Hosted Graphite and Prometheus service. These tools are part of MetricFire’s offering.