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Data from monitoring tools like Datadog are useful for developers to help them understand whether the code they've deployed is healthy or needs to be fixed or rolled back, or when there is an incident to investigate. As a deployment mission control, Sleuth helps developers see metrics data from a developer-centric point of view - by deployment - and interpret such data for them. ‍‍

Modern IT & DevOps teams face increasingly complex environments — making it harder to quickly detect and resolve critical issues in real-time. To overcome this challenge, Splunk users can take advantage of ML-powered IT monitoring and DevOps solutions available in a scalable platform with state-of-the-art data analytics and AI/ML capabilities. In this blog, we deploy Splunk’s built-in Streaming ML algorithms to detect anomalous patterns in error logs in real-time.

As we move into the next year, we are hoping for a return to relative normalcy. That goes for our personal lives, social lives, and professional lives. Professionals have acclimated to the situation, or now see a return to relative normalcy just around the corner with the development of vaccines. And despite the wait, different industries and the DevOps community in particular have persisted.

Come December, it’s traditional in the industry to meditate on emerging trends and make predictions about how these will shape the year to come. I have my fair share of prognostications for 2021, but I want to take this moment to reflect on a year that could never have been predicted.

Like pretty much every company in 2020, Civo has had to deal with some unexpected world events! To wrap up the year, I thought I'd put together some of the most significant developments in our company from a CTO's perspective, and how they will affect us looking forward into the next year.

When an alert triggers in your application or environment, you want your team to know as soon as possible so you can troubleshoot quickly and minimize any user-facing issues. Datadog can automatically alert you via email and collaboration services like Slack and PagerDuty. The simple, real-time communication provided by SMS can also be an effective way to alert your team.

Datadog dashboards provide a unified view of your application, infrastructure, and business data, giving stakeholders the context they need to make decisions. Sharing dashboards publicly is useful when you want to make them easily accessible to a large audience. But oftentimes, your dashboards include sensitive information, which is why you need finer-grained controls over the data you share—and who you share it with.

Wake on LAN(WOL) has been a go-to solution for most network admins to ensure an uninterrupted IT resource. Aiding in remote booting of wired and wireless networks, WoL helps optimize energy usage even as it ensures your network resources are readily available. Enabling you to boot your machines on demand, and switch them to a low power mode when not in use, WoL saves you hefty power bills and helps you avoid the time-consuming manual task of restarting your network devices physically.