Modern continuous integration (CI) practices enable development teams to quickly and efficiently build and deploy application code to a shared codebase. However, deploying new code is typically accompanied by tests, and as the codebase expands, this results in a proportionately larger test suite.

Log data is the most fundamental information unit in our XOps world. It provides a record of every important event. Modern log analysis tools help centralize these logs across all our systems. Log analytics helps engineers understand system behavior, enabling them to search for and pinpoint problems. These tools offer dashboarding capabilities and high-level metrics for system health. Additionally, they can alert us when problems arise.

Adding additional attributes to your telemetry not only provides valuable context to your observability pipeline but also enhances the flexibility and precision of your data operations. Consider, for example, the need to route data from specific geographical locations, like the EU, to a designated destination. With a ‘Location’ attribute added to your logs, you can seamlessly achieve this.

Datadog dashboards and notebooks can be powerful tools for troubleshooting, enabling you to analyze telemetry from across your stack with visualizations customized by service owners, data analysts, and engineers. Many organizations also rely on dashboards and notebooks for key business processes, such as generating reports, creating postmortems, and managing SLOs. This makes it important to keep track of any unintended changes that may result from others accessing your content.

AWS Fargate is a powerful tool for running containerized workloads on AWS. It’s a serverless compute engine that allows you to run containers and focus on developing and deploying your applications while AWS controls the cloud infrastructure. This can make a real difference for an organization, saving both time and resources that would otherwise go towards managing servers. This guide will discuss AWS Fargate pricing and provide tips for cost optimization.

While log parsing isn’t very sexy and never gets much credit, it is fundamental to productive and centralized log analysis. Log parsing extracts information in your logs and organizes them into fields. Without well-structured fields in your logs, searching and visualizing your log data is near impossible.

Are you prepared for the unexpected? In today's rapidly evolving world, operational resilience has never been more critical for businesses to survive and thrive. Resiliency is the ability of a system to maintain its operations under adverse conditions, including system failures, unexpected surges in user demand, or even security breaches. The heart of many applications, particularly in this era of data-driven decision-making, is the data store or database.