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Your app’s networking directly affects the user experience of your app. Imagine having to wait a few seconds for the page to load. Or even worse, imagine waiting for a few seconds every time you perform an action. It would be infuriating! Before you go on a fixing adventure, it’s a good idea to understand what causes that waiting time. So let’s do that!

Incidents put systems and organizations to the test. They pose particular challenges at scale: in complex distributed environments overseen by many different teams, managing incidents requires extensive structure and planning. But incidents, by definition, break structures and foil plans. As a result, they demand carefully orchestrated yet highly flexible forms of response. This post will provide a look into how we manage incidents at Datadog. We’ll cover our entire process.

Starting around June this year, we upgraded our Grafana databases in Grafana Cloud from MySQL 5.7 to MySQL 8, due to MySQL 5.7 reaching end-of-life in October. This project involved tens of thousands of customer databases across dozens of MySQL database servers, multiple cloud providers, and many Kubernetes clusters.

In this conversation, Sanjay Shrestha, Principal Detection Engineer at Bayer, and Raanan Dagan, Principal Sales Engineer from Cribl, talk about the integration of Git in Cribl Stream. They discuss how to manage configuration files and pipelines as code, simplifying their deployment. They also share a demo and give best practices for optimizing your GitOps workflow. In the 10+ years that Bayer has worked with Splunk, they’ve gone from processing just 80 GB/day to more than 13 TB/day.

In late 2012, we were getting somewhere with this unnamed side project that was supposed to replace our overpriced New Relic subscription. If we wanted to tell the world about it, it needed a name. This is a brief history of how we came up with the name, and how we landed appsignal.com. Besides being co-founder, I was also "the name guy” at 80beans, the consultancy where AppSignal was born; you know, the person that comes up with fun names and finds out the.com has been squatted.

We've improved our core features to help you debug issues more efficiently and effectively. This article will walk you through the changes we've made to our Error Tracking, Performance Monitoring, Anomaly Detection, and Log Incidents features that enable you to gain the insights you need to dive deep into issues quicker than ever before.

In the world of Kubernetes, where applications are encapsulated within containers and seamlessly distributed across diverse clusters of computers, the enigmatic Kubernetes scheduler takes centre stage. Think of it as the orchestra conductor of your Kubernetes cluster, orchestrating a symphony of resources to ensure seamless operations. This unassuming yet powerful component leverages a sophisticated algorithm to perform the intricate dance of optimizing resource allocation.