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Founder & Friends: Making It Work with Scott Hanselman

Join us for an exclusive Founder & Friends episode featuring Scott Hanselman, renowned technology expert and host of popular podcasts such as Hanselminutes, Azure Friday, Ratchet and the Geek. Discover the insights, experiences, and wisdom of Scott as he takes us behind the scenes of his successful career and shares his perspectives on the tech industry, work-life balance, and much more! JD and Scott are ready to dive into stories and experiences that have shaped their professional journeys and made them the successful individuals they are today.

VictoriaMetrics bolsters move from monitoring to observability with VictoriaLogs release

Today we’re happy to announce our new open source, scalable logging solution, VictoriaLogs, which helps users and enterprises expand their current monitoring of applications into a more strategic ‘state of all systems’ enterprise-wide observability. Many existing logging solutions on the market today offer IT professionals a limited window into live operations of databases and clusters.

The Carbon Daemons: Graphite monitoring

Graphite is a powerful open-source time series database used for storing, retrieving, and visualizing changing numeric data points over time. With its robust monitoring system, Graphite can efficiently handle large data loads without compromising performance. In this article, we delve into the basics of Graphite, focusing on its primary component, Carbon.

Enabling Cloud-Based Monitoring for Microsoft System Center Operations Manager

Accelerate your Microsoft SCOM-based monitoring in the cloud with cloud-based Monitoring for Microsoft System Center Operations Manager. Seamlessly integrate Microsoft’s new Azure Monitor SCOM Managed Instance (Azure SCOM MI) to complement your current monitoring capabilities and ensure optimal performance. Azure SCOM MI empowers you to bridge the gap between your on-premise and cloud environments, enabling you to scale your operations while reducing costs.

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Synthetic Monitoring for Microsoft Azure DaaS

The adoption of Microsoft Azure Desktop as a Service (DaaS) has significantly improved how businesses access and manage their desktop environments. However, as the number of users relying on DaaS increases, ensuring a seamless and reliable user experience becomes increasingly challenging. This blog post will explore businesses' key challenges in monitoring Microsoft Azure DaaS and how Synthetic Monitoring can help ensure a seamless user experience.

Why Observability is Better with a Storage-less Architecture

In today’s data-driven world, the need for comprehensive observability has never been greater. Organizations rely on observability to gain insights into their systems’ and applications’ performance, availability, and behavior. However, the traditional approach to observability, which involves ingesting, processing, and storing massive amounts of data, is becoming increasingly challenging and expensive.

Quickly and securely enable monitoring for your entire Google Cloud environment

A foundational component of monitoring Google Cloud environments with Datadog is our Google Cloud Platform integration. This integration continuously collects metrics from all of your Google Cloud services and enriches them with tags, enabling you to scope dashboards and monitors to the relevant resources and seamlessly pivot across logs, metrics, and traces inside the Datadog platform.

Logic App Best Practices, Tips, and Tricks: #34 How to validate JSON messages

In the last three blog posts, we explain how to validate null inside Logic App and specifying json schema elements/properties and perform JSON Schema restrictions in Logic Apps. Today and to finish, at least for now this topic, I will speak about another best practice, Tips and Tricks that you must consider while designing your business processes (Logic Apps): Validating JSON messages against schema in Logic Apps.

GrafanaCON 2023 keynote: Grafana 10, cool new dashboards, and more

The keynote at GrafanaCON 2023 streamed live from Stockholm and kicked off two days of sessions on the latest Grafana 10 release as well as success stories and interesting use cases from the community. You can watch all the GrafanaCON sessions online. For more about Grafana 10, read the Grafana 10 release blog. You can explore all the new features in Grafana 10 by upgrading your instance or downloading Grafana 10 today.

Perform Distributed Tracing with Zipkin

Open source Zipkin offers a robust set of features that make it easier for developers to understand and optimize complex distributed systems. Distributed tracing is a technique you can use to trace and monitor requests propagating through a distributed system. It can work in environments where multiple services process a request, making it an essential tool for modern microservices architectures. Zipkin is an open source distributed tracing system for monitoring and troubleshooting complex systems.