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How Datadog's Technical Solutions team uses RUM, Session Replay, and Error Tracking to resolve customer issues

Organizations across a wide range of industries share a common goal: deploy stable applications that support their customers’ needs. Many of these organizations rely on the Datadog platform to get complete visibility into the health and performance of their applications, and we understand how important it is that our services are reliable. That’s why we leverage our own products to ensure that the platform works as expected.

Monitor 3rd-party outages in PagerDuty

We’ve integrated IsDown with PagerDuty so you can manage alerts in the same place you manage all your other alerts. The PagerDuty integration is part of our strategy to make it easy to monitor all the business dependencies that companies nowadays have. We live in a world where SaaS rules the world, and companies prefer to buy vs. build. But with that comes the problem of monitoring all these dependencies, which are critical to daily operations.

Monitor Your AWS AppSync GraphQL APIs with Simplicity

TL;DR: Dashbird launched observability for AWS AppSync. Additionally to AWS Lambda, SQS, DynamoDB, API Gateway, ECS, Kinesis, Step Functions, ELB, SNS, RDS, OpenSearch, and HTTP API Gateway you can now get detailed insights and metrics in the Dashbird app for AWS AppSync. Since Facebook released its previously internally used query language GraphQL in 2016, it has seen an outstanding increase in adoptions for all kinds of applications.

Lumigo for Colorcast: A Game of Metrics

At sports tech company Colorcast, debugging was running out the clock for their developers. They made a game-time decision to automate their tracing and monitoring, knocking out their average time to debug. Watch how they did it with Lumigo. Make sure to subscribe so you don't miss out on any new livestreams and observability content! With one-click distributed tracing, Lumigo lets developers effortlessly find and fix issues in serverless and containerized environments

Quick Bytes - Lumigo Alerts

Lumigo Alerts allows you to create customized alerts for anything lumigo monitors, including event-based alert (e.g., timeout) and key metrics (e.g., error rate). The alerts can delivered via email or a multiple of platform integration options like slack, Microsoft teams and more. Make sure to subscribe so you don't miss out on any new livestreams and observability content! With one-click distributed tracing, Lumigo lets developers effortlessly find and fix issues in serverless and containerized environments

Innovate at Speed With DX NetOps 22.2 Network Monitoring Software

Remove any bottlenecks to your network deployments with continuous, end-to-end modern network monitoring software. Modern network architectures like SD-WAN have emerged as game-changing solutions that provide a mechanism for improving traffic management, deployments, and automation.

The Real Opportunity for Improving Outcomes with Monitoring and Observability

If you were pulled into a meeting right now and asked to give your thoughts on how to achieve better outcomes with monitoring and observability, what would you recommend? Would you default to suggesting that your team improve Mean Time To Detect (MTTD)? Sure, you might make some improvements in that area, but it turns out that most of the opportunities lie in what comes after your system detects an issue. Let’s examine how to measure improvements in monitoring and observability.

Monitoring smart city IoT devices with Grafana and Grafana Loki: Inside the Fuelics observability stack

For smart cities of the future, monitoring infrastructure metrics like fuel and water levels is vital to optimizing operations. Fuelics PC designs and deploys battery-operated narrowband IoT (NB-IoT) sensors that monitor fuel, water, waste, and even parking capacity at the edge, then transmit that data to the cloud for easy viewing and monitoring.

ALB vs. ELB

Load balancers are critical components in AWS systems, and selecting the most suitable option might prove confusing for some users. Choosing the right option enables users to distribute various tasks across resources, resulting in an optimized process. Operating a network without load balancers may result in significant delays in web services during a spike in user requests.