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The Top New Relic Competitors

Platforms like New Relic simplify enterprise cloud complexity, accelerating digital transformation, and simplifying cloud management. Their company serves over 10,000 businesses worldwide with AIops, distributed tracing, browser monitoring, infrastructure monitoring, and synthetic monitoring solutions. As a result of New Relic's lack of onboarding support, some engineers have complained about burnout while implementing the solution.

What's new in Avantra 23.0

Wow, what a year it has been since the release of our last major version 21.11. This year we’ve focused on automation, improving the automation engine we delivered with 21.11.0 across our minor releases for the year and we’ve already received great feedback from our customers. Avantra 23.0 brings all these improvements together with even more automation features, the next release of our new UX project, new automation integrations and much more.

Coming soon! Raygun Alerting's Microsoft Teams integration

Microsoft Teams is a popular integration request for our Alerting feature, and the Raygun team is busy at work making this feature available to all our customers. We will be notifying all our customers when this feature is available. You are also welcome to keep an eye out for the launch announcement in our Changelog. Since it’s such a popular integration request, we thought we’d share some specs and screenshots with you as we progress through the work.

Dash 2022: Guide to Datadog's newest announcements

Today at Dash 2022, we announced new products and features that enable your teams to break down information silos, shift testing to the left, monitor cloud and application security, and more. Now, you can analyze cloud cost data alongside other telemetry, create synthetic tests for your mobile applications, and prevent malicious activity in your environment by blocking IPs directly from Datadog. We expanded Sensitive Data Scanner to include APM, RUM, and Events stream data.

Gain visibility and control of your cloud spend with Datadog Cloud Cost Management

To optimize its cloud investments, your organization needs internal stakeholders to act on shared knowledge about its cloud costs and cloud usage. But in practice, it’s difficult for organizations to gain a high degree of clarity about their cloud spending. The factors contributing to cost data are not normally visible to all stakeholders, and it’s often impossible to attribute costs to the teams, services, and applications that incurred them.

Announcing PCI-Compliant Log Management and APM from Datadog

For any organization that stores, processes, or transmits cardholder data, monitoring can pose a particular set of challenges. The Payment Card Industry (PCI) Data Security Standard (DSS) dictates rigorous monitoring and data security requirements for the cardholder data environments (CDEs) of all merchants, service providers, and financial institutions.