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What does the EU Data Act mean for Observability?

The EU Data Act came into effect on January 12th, 2024 and most of its provisions apply from September 12th, 2025. The EU Data Act is designed to give individuals and businesses more control over the data they generate, ensuring fair access, use, and sharing across sectors. For any data generating platform that intends to operate in the European Union, this new legislation matters.

LibreNMS + VictoriaMetrics: The Ultimate Monitoring Duo

Get the best of both worlds! Love LibreNMS but need more power for long-term metrics? Integrate it with VictoriaMetrics! We show you a surprisingly simple way to combine these two powerhouses for advanced querying and storage, and even how to A/B test your setup. Want more ways to power-up your monitoring stack? Subscribe for more integration guides and pro tips!

You can't understand digital experience without monitoring from where your users actually are!

If you’re monitoring your applications, you’re missing what your customers are actually seeing. Performance issues don’t happen in a vacuum. They happen at the edges, on mobile devices, over congested networks, in last-mile dead zones. Monitoring only works when it’s aligned with reality. And reality starts at the user.

Track the performance of your HPC workloads with Datadog's AWS PCS integration

AWS Parallel Computing Service (AWS PCS) is a managed service that helps users run and scale their high performance computing (HPC) workloads. AWS PCS uses Slurm, an open source workload manager, for scheduling and orchestrating simulations, which enables users to build their scientific and engineering models in a familiar HPC environment.