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Secure HashiCorp Vault with Datadog Cloud SIEM

HashiCorp Vault provides centralized storage and management of passwords, API keys, tokens, and other secrets that distributed applications can use to operate securely. Vault clients—services and applications that access secrets programmatically, as well as users who interact with a Vault server—can create, update, and read secrets based on the permissions you grant them.

What we learned from AWS's us-east-1 outage

In case you missed it, for several hours on December 7, 2021, AWS's us-east-1 region had an outage impacting multiple AWS APIs, taking out various websites across the internet. According to our own monitoring at OnlineOrNot, the outage started at 2021-12-07 15:32 UTC and began to recover well at 2021-12-07 22:48 UTC (with minor signs of life for a few minutes around 2021-12-07 20:08 UTC). Had we relied solely on AWS to update their status page before reacting, we would have been waiting a while.

Why the Return to the Office Can Kill Microsoft Teams Performance

With the participation of Cam Smith, Microsoft Teams Product Manager at Microsoft Canada. What Teams performance challenges will organizations face as they return to the office, and how do you avoid them proactively? This educational webinar will showcase these topics.

7 Reasons Why MSPs Benefit From IT Automation

Automation has become the backbone for businesses wanting to stay afloat in the highly competitive markets today. Managed Service Providers (MSPs) are among those reaping heavily from IT automation processes. The benefits MSPs obtain from IT automation include lower costs, reduced errors, and increased productivity. With automation, MSPs can acquire better data, become more reliable, and scale their operations.

How Sentry Fed the Code Observability Revolution at Shift

What happens when you have to evolve a monolithic application into a microservices architecture in order to scale a doubling Engineering staff while meeting the expectations of a growing business? Join Aaron Chu, Senior Director of Technical Operations and Karan Gupta, CTO at Shift, a modern tech company disrupting the used car industry, as they share Shift’s journey to define their Observability culture. They’ll walk through how Shift uses Sentry to ensure accountability and empower engineers to improve overall outcomes.

Tracing makes a bug easy to spot

Today, I found a bug before I noticed it. Like, it was subtle, and so I wasn’t quite sure I saw it—maybe I hadn’t hit refresh yet? Later, I looked at the trace of my function and, boom, there was a clear bug. Here’s the function with the bug. It responds to a request to /win by saving a record of the win and returning the total of my winnings so far. Can you spot the problem in the TypeScript? It’s subtle. Now here’s a trace in Honeycomb: Now do you see the bug?

How Better Collaboration and Planning Drive a Superior Digital Experience

An outstanding customer experience is one that keeps customers coming back, while spreading the word about their experience. Your applications are the heartbeat of that service delivery experience for both customers and other end users. When the experience wows, customer satisfaction grows.

On AI Adoption, IT Teams Lag Far Behind Security Teams. AIOps Can Help

Security operations teams and IT operations teams share a lot in common. They have both spent the past decade grappling with systems that grow more complex every year and figuring out ways to handle ever-larger volumes of data. They also both face pressure to identify and remediate problems as quickly as possible – ideally, in real time. And they are supposed to do it all without breaking the bank.