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The Datadog Service Catalog helps you centralize knowledge about your organization’s services, giving you a single source of truth to improve collaboration, service governance, and incident response. Datadog automatically detects your APM-instrumented services and writes their metadata to a service definition before adding them to the catalog.

Ever discovered an IP issue only after an end user reported it? If yes, you are not alone! Many network admins without a proactive monitoring solution in place have to constantly deal with recurring IP issues such as IP conflicts and subnet overutilization. As simple as it sounds, IP address management can be a tricky endeavor without the right strategy and management tools. Managing hundreds of IPs across multiple subnets and supernets can be tedious.

As someone who has seen the devastating effects of poor performance monitoring firsthand, I can attest to the importance of doing it right from the start. If your users are experiencing latency issues and you’re not aware of them, that’s a big problem. At one of my previous jobs, we ended up paying out millions of dollars in SLA violation fees because we didn’t have proper monitoring.

Cloud migration efforts continue to grow today as organizations move into a post-pandemic work environment. According to McKinsey & Company, by 2024, most enterprises aspire to have $8 out of every $10 for IT hosting go toward the cloud. In a survey by Morgan Stanley, CIOs say cloud computing will see the highest rate of IT spending growth in 2022.

IT roles have never been more in demand and IT salaries have never been higher, according to recent reports and data sources. Whether you are hiring, looking for a career change, or simply work in tech, it’s important to stay up-to-date on the state of employment in the industry. This blog post will review, roundup, and summarize some of the latest trends for IT salaries and demand by role and location (among other variables) to help you get a clear view of the landscape.

We’ve reached the point in the DevOps transformation where efficiency and automation are no longer the highest objectives. The next step is engineering past automation and towards fully autonomous, self-healing systems. If you aren’t conversing about building this type of resilience into your systems and applications, there’s never been a better time than now to start.

Veterans United Home Loans is the top VA lender for home buyers in the United States and has been making the dream of homeownership a reality for veterans and military families for more than two decades. A big part of making that dream come true is keeping their services – including both internal applications and a robust digital experience for their borrowers – highly performant.