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Manage Service Catalog entries efficiently with the Service Definition JSON Schema

The Datadog Service Catalog helps you centralize knowledge about your organization’s services, giving you a single source of truth to improve collaboration, service governance, and incident response. Datadog automatically detects your APM-instrumented services and writes their metadata to a service definition before adding them to the catalog.

5 best practices for optimizing IP address management

Ever discovered an IP issue only after an end user reported it? If yes, you are not alone! Many network admins without a proactive monitoring solution in place have to constantly deal with recurring IP issues such as IP conflicts and subnet overutilization. As simple as it sounds, IP address management can be a tricky endeavor without the right strategy and management tools. Managing hundreds of IPs across multiple subnets and supernets can be tedious.

Monitoring Performance at Moonbeam from Day One

As someone who has seen the devastating effects of poor performance monitoring firsthand, I can attest to the importance of doing it right from the start. If your users are experiencing latency issues and you’re not aware of them, that’s a big problem. At one of my previous jobs, we ended up paying out millions of dollars in SLA violation fees because we didn’t have proper monitoring.

State of Cloud Cost Report 2022

Cloud migration efforts continue to grow today as organizations move into a post-pandemic work environment. According to McKinsey & Company, by 2024, most enterprises aspire to have $8 out of every $10 for IT hosting go toward the cloud. In a survey by Morgan Stanley, CIOs say cloud computing will see the highest rate of IT spending growth in 2022.

IT Salaries: Trends, Roles, & Locations for 2022-2023

IT roles have never been more in demand and IT salaries have never been higher, according to recent reports and data sources. Whether you are hiring, looking for a career change, or simply work in tech, it’s important to stay up-to-date on the state of employment in the industry. This blog post will review, roundup, and summarize some of the latest trends for IT salaries and demand by role and location (among other variables) to help you get a clear view of the landscape.

Resiliency As the Next Step in the DevOps Transformation

We’ve reached the point in the DevOps transformation where efficiency and automation are no longer the highest objectives. The next step is engineering past automation and towards fully autonomous, self-healing systems. If you aren’t conversing about building this type of resilience into your systems and applications, there’s never been a better time than now to start.

DX NetOps 22.2 Expands Industry-Leading Observability for Fortinet SD-WAN

The latest release of DX NetOps 22.2 continues to expand monitoring coverage of the most popular SD-WAN vendors in the market - now supporting Fortinet SD-WAN. The multi-vendor SD-WAN monitoring solution helps operations teams quickly understand how their Fortinet SD-WAN environment is meeting application delivery SLAs and how current performance compares to baseline norms.

How Veterans United Home Loans uses Grafana Cloud to help military families become homeowners

Veterans United Home Loans is the top VA lender for home buyers in the United States and has been making the dream of homeownership a reality for veterans and military families for more than two decades. A big part of making that dream come true is keeping their services – including both internal applications and a robust digital experience for their borrowers – highly performant.

How Modern Infrastructure is Impacting Application Availability at Scale

The complexity of modern information technology (IT) infrastructures has grown exponentially and changed the way software companies operate and deliver products and services. The days of a single application server and a simple delivery path are long gone. Today’s application development and delivery process can encompass multiple platforms, cloud vendors, code libraries and customer bases.