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Creating amazing user experiences in virtual desktop environments with synthetic monitoring

Creating amazing, authentic, and user-driven applications isn't easy. Between the +3 million apps in mobile app stores and the millions of business apps and web experiences nestled in public, hybrid, and private cloud servers, competition is fierce and expectations are sky-high. Your employees expect the same top-tier experiences they get from consumer apps. And failing to deliver those experiences impacts your bottom-line productivity and happiness.

Integration for Microsoft Teams Now Available!

If your team is on Microsoft Teams then it's time to team up with Dead Man's Snitch to bring our alerts out of your inbox and into your team's chat. Adding an alerting integration with Microsoft Teams should take only a minute or two. You can find step by step instructions in our Microsoft Teams documentation. Microsoft Teams joins our growing list of integrations from Slack to Mattermost to Opsgenie and beyond.

Datadog on LLMs: From Chatbots to Autonomous Agents

As companies rapidly adopt Large Language Models (LLMs), understanding their unique challenges becomes crucial. Join us for a special episode of "Datadog On LLMs: From Chatbots to Autonomous Agents," streaming directly from DASH 2024 on Wednesday, June 26th, to discuss this important topic. In this live session, host Jason Hand will be joined by Othmane Abou-Amal from Datadog’s Data Science team and Conor Branagan from the Bits AI team. Together, they will explore the fascinating world of LLMs and their applications at Datadog.

Back to the Basics: The Foundational Role of DDI in Any Network

In the ever-evolving landscape of networking, there are a plethora of three-letter acronyms that make up the wonderful alphabet soup that is a part of every engineer’s vocabulary. Whether it’s TCP, UDP, SSH, or one of the many other dozens, one acronym is commonly left out of the discussion: DDI. These seemingly simple letters are often overlooked or rarely thought of, but they are a crucial foundation for managing a stable, secure, and efficient network.

Ensuring Operational Resilience in Financial Services

Each year, financial services organizations handle billions of transactions, through which trillions of dollars of commerce flow. Customers expect key services, from online banking and cash transfers to payroll services, to be available around the clock, just as they expect their assets, data, and identities to be kept secure. Meanwhile, financial institutions themselves must be able to maintain ongoing communication with clearing houses, stock markets, payment processors, and other relevant parties.

Navigating Software Engineering Complexity With Observability

In the not-too-distant past, building software was relatively straightforward. The simplicity of LAMP stacks, Rails, and other well-defined web frameworks provided a stable foundation. Issues were isolated, systems failed in predictable ways, and engineers had time to innovate on new features for the business. And it was good.

GenAI for customer support - Part 1: Building our proof of concept

Welcome to the Inside Elastic blog series, where we showcase Elastic's internal operations solving real-world business challenges. This specific series will shed light on our journey to integrate generative AI into our customer success and support operations, providing you with a behind-the-scenes look at our process. We’re blogging about this capability as we’re building it, and we’re excited for you to join the ride!