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7 Myths of AVD Monitoring

Azure Virtual Desktop (AVD) is a powerful and increasingly popular solution that allows businesses to provide secure, scalable, and cloud-based desktop virtualization, usually without the overhead of on-prem infrastructure. However, many organizations underestimate the importance of monitoring, leading to performance, compliance, and cost issues. Today, I will debunk several common myths surrounding AVD monitoring and explain why a proactive approach can save you time, stress and billing costs.

Datadog on Building Reliable Distributed Applications Using Temporal

Temporal is an open source platform to build resilient and reliable distributed systems. Datadog started using Temporal in 2020 as the foundation for our internal software delivery platform. Since then, its usage has been widely adopted as a platform that any engineering team can use to build their systems. In this Datadog on episode, Ara Pulido chats with Loïc Minaudier, Senior Software Engineer in the Atlas team, responsible for providing a developer platform on top of Temporal, and Allen George, Engineering Manager in the Datadog Workflows team.
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Stress-free production deployments: Overcoming high-complexity upgrades with Raygun

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Why DataDog Pricing is so Complex - See Plans, Estimate Costs, and Optimize

Datadog is a popular observability platform, but understanding its pricing structure can be challenging. Whether you're just starting with Datadog or are receiving hefty bills, this guide will help you understand its pricing model, estimate your potential costs, and find ways to optimize them. You can use the below tool to estimate your Datadog bill.

This Month in Datadog: Google Gemini integration, Unified Error Tracking, and more

Datadog is constantly elevating the approach to cloud monitoring and security. This Month in Datadog updates you on our newest product features, announcements, resources, and events. To learn more about Datadog and start a free 14-day trial, visit Cloud Monitoring as a Service | Datadog. This month, we put the Spotlight on Datadog LLM Observability’s native integration with Google Gemini.

How Appfolio uses Datadog LLM Observability to deliver exceptional GenAI experiences

Learn how Appfolio is delivering positive customer experiences in real estate with generative AI — supported and safeguarded by Datadog’s LLM Observability. See how you can use Datadog LLM Observability to monitor, troubleshoot, improve, and secure your LLM applications.

Monitoring and Troubleshooting Nerdio

Today I’ll give a brief overview on monitoring and troubleshooting Nerdio, a.NET application, popular with MSPs (Managed Service Providers) and enterprises using Microsoft Azure Virtual Desktop (AVD). Nerdio is a cloud-based application used by administrators to automate the deployment and management of virtual desktops in Azure.