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Dashboard Fridays: Steam Player Data

This is a fun dashboard to capture some Steam player statistics using the WebAPI plugin. Created by SquaredUp's Director of Engineering, Josip Dlaka, this handy dashboard displays how long his kids have been online, how many friends they have, and what they have achieved without even leaving their room! SquaredUp allows you to combine and visualize data from multiple data sources in a meaningful way, so this aesthetically pleasing dashboard gives a good overview of key Steam player metrics in Josip's household.

Digital Experience Monitoring: What it is and Why it Matters

The art of monitoring the influence of an application’s performance on business outcomes is constantly evolving. It used to be directing IT teams to act on insights from an Application Performance Monitoring (APM) solution was enough to drive business outcomes. Now we know the user experience has a heavy hand in determining whether a digital platform survives or dies. An APM solution keeps tabs on the performance of application components such as servers, databases, and services.

Incident Management Steps and Best Practices

According to the Uptime Institute’s 2022 Outage Analysis report, one out of every five companies has experienced a “serious” or “severe” incident over the past three years—a percentage that’s increasing. Those incidents are expensive: over 60% cost more than $100,000, while 15% set their companies back close to $1 million.

Import Backstage YAML files into Datadog to manage all your services in one place

The Datadog Service Catalog centralizes your organization’s knowledge about the ownership, reliability, performance, costs, and security of your services. If you’re also using Backstage to keep track of your services, you can leverage our support for Backstage YAML to easily consolidate and maintain all your service information in the Service Catalog.

Different Access for Different Roles: Cribl's New Authorization Support for Enhanced Security

When working with sensitive data, there’s no skimping on security. Keeping data protected and private is paramount at Cribl, which is why we prioritized building a robust framework for Role-Based Access Control (RBAC), and with this latest release, we created an authorization system across the entire Cribl suite. WOOHOO!!

Kubernetes Community Day Munich Recap: A Meeting of Tech Minds and Ideas

This July, the community spirit was profoundly vibrant in the scenic city of Munich, as Kubernetes Community Day (KCD) Munich brought together a meeting of minds and inspired the open-source collaboration we all know and love. The event was a testament to the strength and vitality of the Kubernetes community, which pulsed with an energy of shared intellectual curiosity and passion for all things Kubernetes.

5 Tips for Faster Troubleshooting to Reduce MTTR

In today’s rapidly evolving digital landscape, organizations heavily rely on their applications and systems to deliver optimal performance. As such, driving down the key metric of Mean Time to Resolution (MTTR) is clearly one of the biggest challenges facing observability practitioners today.

What Is Time to Interactive? A Comprehensive Guide

Website performance is critical to understand user experience and engagement, but there are so many different metrics! What do they all mean? Not to worry, dear reader, I got your back. Let’s break down Time to Interactive or TTI, why you should care about it, and how to make it blazingly fast. In today’s fast-paced digital world 🙄, website performance plays a crucial role in user experience and engagement.