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How to Manage Datadog Resources Using Terraform | Datadog Tips & Tricks

Terraform allows you to efficiently manage complex infrastructure environments, and Datadog is an important piece of those environments. With the Datadog provider, you can use Terraform to manage your Datadog resources as code, allowing you to create and edit resources with the same tool you’re already using for your infrastructure. This video will show you how to do just that through the example of creating a Datadog monitor.

How to Build A Unified Dashboard | Datadog Tips & Tricks

In this video, you’ll learn how to create unified dashboards to enable your teams with valuable information and performance visualizations from across the Datadog platform. Dashboards allow your teams to see all data from across the Datadog platform side-by-side, enabling holistic visibility and breaking down silos between Dev and Ops teams. In this video, you’ll learn how to create a Screenboard, showcasing data such as frontend system latency, backend system latency, and Service Level Objectives all in one place.

Identifying Environment Right Sizing Opportunities for Cost Efficiency | Datadog Tips & Tricks

In this video, you’ll learn how to use the host map to identify opportunities to rightsize your environment to become more cost efficient. MoneySuperMarket Group was able to cut their cloud infrastructure costs by over 50% by utilizing Datadog. This video unpacks some of the practices used by MoneySuperMarket’s engineering team to accomplish that.

New Enterprise features in Grafana 7.0: Usage insights and user presence indicator

Dashboard sprawl is a real problem whether you’re using Grafana or any other tool. When growing to thousands of users – and as many dashboards – you’ll eventually want more information about how the tool is being used in your organization. After all, dashboards don’t help anyone if they aren’t being used. Managing large installations is one of the areas where Grafana Enterprise improves Grafana, and our launch of usage insights in 7.0 is a key part of that.

Suggested Cloud Monitoring Strategies for IaaS, PaaS, and SaaS

From the Cloud First policy established in 2010 to last year’s Cloud Smart update, it’s clear the government is driving federal agencies toward cloud computing. The strategy makes sense, but for agencies migrating, however, the decision is less clear cut, because there are several options agencies can choose based on individual agency needs.

Kubernetes observability tutorial: Metrics collection and analysis

This post is the second in our Kubernetes observability tutorial series, where we explore how you can monitor all aspects of your applications running in Kubernetes, including: We’ll cover using Elastic Observability to ingest and analyze container metrics in Kibana using the Metrics app and out-of-the-box dashboards.

Complete Guide to Lambda Triggers and Design Patterns (Part 1)

A while ago, we covered the invocation (trigger) methods supported by Lambda and the integrations available with the AWS catalog. Now we’re launching a series of articles to correlate these integration possibilities with common serverless architectural patterns (covered by this literature review). In Part I, we will cover the Orchestration & Aggregation category. Subscribe to our newsletter and stay tuned for the next parts of the series.

Managing IT Risk When Everyone's Working Remote

Cybersecurity has always been an evolving challenge for IT teams—even before the pandemic and subsequent mass exodus to the home office. At the Protect & Streamline Summit for IT Leaders, experts from the IT and cybersecurity space came together to share advice for IT leaders scrambling to contend with a new set of business risks. Read on for key takeaways or access all session recordings for a deeper dive.