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Announcing support for Windows containers on AWS Fargate

AWS Fargate is a serverless compute engine that allows you to deploy containerized applications with services such as Amazon ECS without needing to manage the underlying virtual machines. Deploying with Fargate removes operational overhead and lowers costs by enabling your infrastructure to dynamically scale to meet demand. We are proud to partner with AWS for its launch of support for AWS Fargate on Windows containers.

Top 4 pitfalls causing poor monitoring in an IT estate

As we speak, there are likely thousands of organizations running some type of monitoring solution out there, each within unique operational structures, but the difference between those that that are successful and those that are not can be attributed to 4 root causes. Not surprisingly, these 4 root causes apply to any toolset or technology used. That’s largely due to the likelihood that the best tools in the world used poorly will deliver poor results.

How to improve the customer service experience through status pages

With the 2021 holiday season right around the corner and the COVID-19 pandemic still prevalent, businesses are being conducted online now more than ever. The holiday rush also comes with incidents like websites going down, slow load times, and even possible hacking attempts. While planning to tackle the sudden increase in website traffic during the festive season, businesses must have an incident response plan in place to handle unexpected outages and the consequent surge in customer inquiries.

VirtualMetric's Heatmaps

Within just a couple of seconds, you can see your entire server infrastructure’s status in a visual format in VirtualMetric's Heatmaps. All hardware and performance-related issues will be highlighted in the form of visual cues in neatly organized heat maps. The information is also updated in real-time, thus allowing you to catch errors before they pass the threshold. 👉 Flexible and scalable option VirtualMetric, being cloud-based, can quickly adapt to changing server requirements and infrastructure setups.

k6 introduces browser automation and Prometheus support in k6 OSS

While there is a lot of focus on the three pillars of observability to provide insight into application performance in production, load testing is the other side of the observability story. By using the open source load testing tool k6 — which Grafana Labs acquired earlier this year — developers can simulate real-world traffic to test the reliability and performance of software changes and new features, not to mention flag performance issues before impacting end users.

This Month in Datadog: November 2021 (Episode 6)

Datadog is constantly elevating the approach to cloud monitoring and security. This Month in Datadog updates you on our newest product features, announcements, resources, and events. This month we put the Spotlight on Network Device Monitoring, along with highlighting the many announcements and guest presentations from Dash.