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SolarWinds Observability 2025.1: Big Cloud Updates for GCP, AWS & Azure!

Feb 21, 2025 By SolarWinds In SolarWinds
New cloud support has landed in SolarWinds Observability 2025.1! Now with expanded monitoring for Google Cloud, AWS, and Azure, you can track even more cloud entities with ease. What’s new? Google Cloud – Now supports Google Compute Engine Azure – New support for Azure App Service & Blob Storage AWS – Expanded RDS support (MySQL, Aurora, PostgreSQL, Oracle) + Load Balancer monitoring See it in action! We explore the latest dashboards and drill into cloud resources like virtual machines, databases, and storage.
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How to use locators to design more resilient synthetic tests

Feb 21, 2025 By Addie Beach In Datadog
Most modern web applications are frequently updated to implement new features, execute marketing campaigns, or enhance their UX with new libraries or APIs. While this helps you better engage your users, constant UI updates make designing flexible, long-lasting tests challenging.
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A deep dive into Database Monitoring index recommendations

Feb 21, 2025 By Alex Weisberger In Datadog
Datadog Database Monitoring (DBM) Recommendations help you proactively optimize performance throughout your database fleet. DBM draws on a wide range of data sources in order to detect and provide actionable guidance on issues such as blocking queries, low disk space, and missing indexes. In this post, we’ll show you how DBM formulates targeted indexing recommendations to help you optimize database performance.
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Increase control and reduce noise in your AWS logs using Datadog Observability Pipelines

Feb 21, 2025 By Ahmed Ahmed In Datadog
Today’s SRE and security operations center (SOC) teams often find themselves overwhelmed by the sheer volume and variety of logs generated by critical AWS services such as VPC Flow Logs, AWS WAF, and Amazon CloudFront. While these logs can be valuable for detecting and investigating security threats, as well as troubleshooting issues in your environment, managing them at scale can be challenging and costly.
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Breaking Free from Legacy Observability: Why Service Providers Choose Kentik Over Deepfield

Feb 21, 2025 By Lauren Basile In Kentik
Modern network operators need modern observability tools. In this post, we explore why Deepfield — a traditional network flow analytics platform — falls short in providing comprehensive insights required for today’s network operations, and how Kentik’s modern data platform is purpose-built for today’s infrastructure teams.
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How Forbes delivers a premium digital experience with Datadog

Feb 21, 2025 By Datadog In Datadog
Learn how Forbes, a global media powerhouse, successfully migrated to the cloud with Datadog. Discover how they enabled their teams across their entire tech stack to access IT data and make critical improvements. The team maintained a 99.5 percent uptime through proactive alerting and improved root cause analysis by 10 percent.
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Making sure you get a Checkly alert for every detected failure

Feb 21, 2025 By Nočnica Mellifera In Checkly
It’s every ops team’s biggest anxiety: a monitoring system detects a failure, but the notification either isn’t delivered or isn’t noticed by the team. Now we have to wait for users to complain before our team knows about the problem. Checkly sends an alert every time the system detects a failure, but how can you be sure you’re getting those alerts, and that those alerts are going to the right people?
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