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Before we dive into the specifics of MetricFire vs. Datadog, let's address the most critical point: scaling. Datadog is great for users who need to do a little bit of everything, but Datadog's biggest weakness is scaling. Datadog can do logs, APM, time-series and more, but scaling time-series metrics, alerts, and servers will cause your monthly bill to escalate. The graph below shows what you pay at Datadog vs. MetricFire: Now, let's dive into MetricFire vs. Datadog, and their key comparisons.

Today, AWS has announced AWS Network Firewall: a new managed service that makes it easy to deploy essential network protections for Amazon Virtual Private Clouds (VPCs). As a launch partner, Splunk has worked closely with AWS to provide customers an integration to AWS Network Firewall. In today’s blog, co-authored by my esteemed colleague Anush Jayaraman, we’ll first detail the data flow architecture and your options to ingest the AWS Network Firewall data.

It’s budgeting season for many of us. As a result, capacity planning and cost justification for hardware purchases are likely on your mind. But don’t fear, because Galileo has you covered. We’ve curated a bunch of our most popular and helpful resources for your capacity planning project, and they’re all here in one handy place.

In the beginning we, as Humanity, created computers. We said “let it be electricity” and it was the light on our ballistic trajectory calculations. We saw the numbers matched and they were good. And we called the set of calculation instructions as “programs”, which were loaded straight into computer memories. And so was the first computing decade. GNU Linux commands didn’t exist yet, because there were no operating systems either.

With the latest release of JFrog Artifactory, your Kubernetes world just got a lot bigger. Artifactory’s Docker registries are now compliant with the Open Container Initiative (OCI). Repository support for images compatible with OCI and support for the Helm 3 client mean you can run K8s with a high degree of versatility. Once you’re no longer locked exclusively into Docker, you can run either part of your container ecosystem or all of it using any OCI-compatible client.