Operations | Monitoring | ITSM | DevOps | Cloud

April 2021

See Inside the Datadog Platform

Datadog offers a single unified platform to monitor your infrastructure, applications, networks, security threats, UX, and more. For full visibility, you can seamlessly navigate between metrics, traces, and logs. Built-in machine learning tools, clear visualizations, and a companion mobile app make it easy to monitor growing environments. See inside any stack, any app, at any scale, anywhere.

Interlink Software and AppDynamics deliver unified, data-driven Service Visualization and faster fault resolution.

We are delighted to share news of our partnership with leading, real-time Application Performance Monitoring (APM) vendor Cisco AppDynamics and are now a fully-fledged member of their Integration Partner Program (IPP.) For our mutual enterprise customers service affecting issues can lie undetected in the vast volumes of data generated by the multiple, disconnected tools used to monitor their multi-cloud environments, applications and technical solutions.

Application Performance Management 101

To stay alive and growing, tech organizations are always on the hunt for ways to increase the quality and stability of their applications and services. Doing so is essential if they want to prevent their customers from becoming their competitors’ customers, after all. This post is all about a specific process organizations can—and should—use to increase the availability and performance of their offerings and delight their customers: application performance management (APM).

Choosing Azure Instances for Microsoft WVD: Community and Vendor Resources

In an earlier blog, we had discussed what is Microsoft Windows Virtual Desktop (WVD) and why it is gaining popularity. In this blog, we present various community and vendor resources that can help you choose the right Azure instances for your Microsoft WVD deployment. Here, at eG Innovations, we offer a wealth of monitoring and simulation tools to allow you to monitor what real users are experiencing when accessing Microsoft WVD.

Cisco AppDynamics Expands Global Software-as-a-Service Offering With Five New Locations

The addition of five new locations across Africa, Asia, Europe and South America brings the total number of AppDynamics global SaaS locations to nine. AppDynamics offers customers the broadest scale and reach of global SaaS support of any Application Performance Monitoring and Observability companies. Global expansion further provides AppDynamics customers with increased flexibility, scale and cost efficiencies, as well as greater data residency compliance and security.

Dash Studio: Building time-based comparison dashboards

AppDynamic's Dash Studio makes it easier and faster to build custom dashboards that deliver rich and comprehensive insights into your application's performance metrics. Check out this video that shows you how to build dashboards that compare application performance across multiple time ranges, in a matter of moments.

Outdated Calculus of Cloud Cost Containment

“Cost” would seem to underpin almost every decision IT teams make. Sure, business requirements drive overall operations budgets, but it’s always in tension with decades-old certainties about cost. It’s long been the unyielding constant of IT equations. In particular, IT pros migrating application infrastructures out of the data center have discovered the on-premises math of cost containment no longer works.

Self-hosting software & why it may be worth considering again now

Not all industries are the same in terms of the sensitivity of data they handle. And as you mature as a company, you need to be more careful of how you handle your critical data. With the advent of modern cloud native technologies & Kubernetes, on-prem software is more viable now.

Datadog receives a "Leader" distinction in Gartner's 2021 Magic Quadrant for APM

This week, Gartner published the 2021 Magic Quadrant for Application Performance Monitoring, which positions vendors according to their ability to execute and the completeness of their vision. This year, Datadog placed higher and further in both categories to move from our previous “Visionary” distinction, which we received the first time we were included on the Quadrant, into the “Leader” quadrant.

Datadog On Agent Integration Development

To make sure that customers are getting the most out of the platform in the least amount of time, Datadog maintains more than 400 built-in integrations. These integrations collect metrics, events, and logs from a diverse set of sources: databases, source control, bug tracking tools, cloud providers, automation tools, and more. How do we make sure that all those integrations are properly tested, updated for new features, and delivered to millions of hosts?

Elastic named a Visionary in the 2021 Gartner Magic Quadrant for Application Performance Monitoring

We’re excited to announce that Elastic has been named a Visionary in the 2021 Gartner Magic Quadrant for Application Performance Monitoring. We are thrilled with the Visionary placement and believe that it validates our differentiated approach to delivering a modern application performance monitoring solution, powered by the Elastic Stack. Download the complimentary report to see how Gartner evaluates the market, and why they recognized Elastic as a Visionary in our first time participating.

How Important Are Application Performance Metrics to Mission Success?

Federal IT pros have tracked application performance for decades. Today’s environments are far more complex than they’ve ever been, particularly with the quick and steady rise of cloud computing, mobile devices, and remote work. This enhanced complexity demands an improved ability to collect and track application performance metrics to ensure things are operating as expected and needed. But not all federal IT pros have the time or knowledge to keep up with the demand.

ThousandEyes Intelligence in AppDynamics Dash Studio Demo

ThousandEyes Internet and Cloud Intelligence in AppDynamics Dash Studio combines the network and internet performance metrics from ThousandEyes into AppDynamics Dash Studio, AppDynamics’ next generation dashboarding experience. This video shows how the solution provides a common operating language for network, application, and cloud teams to quickly isolate and resolve issues across the entire application delivery ecosystem, enabling them to deliver world-class digital experiences.

AppDynamics with Cisco Secure Application Demo

See how you can protect your business-critical applications with Cisco Secure Application. Built in collaboration with Cisco Security, Secure Application simplifies vulnerability management, blocks attacks in real-time, and creates a shared context for App and Security teams. Maximize uptime and performance while minimizing risk with Secure Application.

What is Windows Virtual Desktop?

Microsoft released its desktop-as-a-service (DaaS) offering, WVD (Windows Virtual Desktop), to the general public in September 2019. The service runs on Azure and provides a multi-user version of Windows 10, a feature unavailable for on-premises deployments of Hyper-V. WVD is a free service for Microsoft customers with most types of Windows 10 Enterprise license, however, the subscription or PAYG Azure costs are additional, as are many components you may wish to add.

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.