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What is Entra ID? .... and how Entra ID has evolved since the Azure AD rebranding

Entra ID is the new name for Azure Active Directory (Azure AD), Microsoft’s cloud-based identity and access management service. This rebranding, announced in July 2023, is part of Microsoft’s broader Entra product family, which focuses on securing access to digital resources and managing identities in a comprehensive way.

Why Context Matters: Mastering Serverless App Monitoring

Hi there, and welcome to the second video in this series on observing AWS serverless applications with Datadog. In this video, you’ll learn how important it is to add custom business context to the telemetry you send to Datadog and how you can use that inside APM to quickly diagnose and debug issues. You’ll walk away with an understanding of the importance of distributed tracing, as well as how you can add specific business context to the telemetry you send.

How to make APIM log data easily accessible for non-technical users?

This video explains the use case for API Management and Integration using the Business Activity Monitoring (BAM) feature of Turbo360. The scenario involves tracking help desk ticket submissions via an API, ensuring that support teams and business users can easily check the status of tickets. The challenge is that log data is complex and not easily accessible to non-technical users. Turbo360 simplifies this by providing a user-friendly interface where support teams can search, filter, and analyze logs without deep technical expertise.

How Forbes delivers a premium digital experience with Datadog

Learn how Forbes, a global media powerhouse, successfully migrated to the cloud with Datadog. Discover how they enabled their teams across their entire tech stack to access IT data and make critical improvements. The team maintained a 99.5 percent uptime through proactive alerting and improved root cause analysis by 10 percent.

How APM and synthetic monitoring work together for better performance

Imagine this: A customer tries to log in to your app, but the page takes too long to load. Frustrated, they leave. Meanwhile, your IT team has no clue there was an issue—until complaints start pouring in. Sound familiar? Performance lags are the new downtime. Lags are not just an inconvenience—they lead to lost revenue and frustrated users. To prevent this, organizations turn to application performance monitoring (APM) and synthetic monitoring to maintain peak application performance.

DORA Compliance - An Opportunity for MSPs

For Managed Service Providers (MSPs) in the EU, who serve financial organizations, DORA regulatory compliance is a hot topic. The DORA (Digital Operational Resilience Act) is a new regulation that came into force on Jan 17th, 2025, aimed at ensuring the operational resilience of financial entities in the EU, focusing on technology risk management and minimizing disruptions in critical services.

Observability for your NodeJS AWS Serverless Applications

Hi there, and welcome to the first video in this series on observing AWS serverless applications with Datadog. In this video, you’ll learn how easy it is to get started observing your serverless NodeJS applications using Datadog and the AWS CDK. You’ll also look at how you can use the Datadog console to diagnose latency issues and errors inside your application. You’ll walk away with an understanding of how to instrument your Lambda functions with the AWS CDK, as well as practical steps you can take to debug your applications.