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Monitor Windows Certificate Store with Datadog

Sep 10, 2025 By Shanel Huang In Datadog
The Windows Certificate Store is a critical component of any modern Windows environment. Certificates enable TLS encryption for Internet Information Services (IIS)-hosted applications, support certificate-based authentication in Active Directory, and help validate the identity of trusted Windows services. But if a certificate in your store expires, is revoked, or is part of a broken certificate chain, you risk instability and security gaps in your Windows environment.
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Visually identify observability gaps with Cloudcraft in Datadog

Sep 10, 2025 By Jace Harker In Datadog
Modern cloud environments are highly complex and dynamic, with critical services relying on large numbers of ephemeral resources. Ensuring observability coverage across this landscape is essential for troubleshooting, maintaining reliability, optimizing performance, and enforcing security standards. But as environments grow more elaborate and their ownership more dispersed, tracking observability coverage becomes increasingly challenging.
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A practical guide to error handling in Go

Sep 8, 2025 By Wojciech Gancarczyk In Datadog
When you first start coding in Go, you quickly learn how error handling in the language differs from error handling in languages such as Java, Python, JavaScript, or Ruby. In those languages, throwing an exception automatically generates a stack trace. Go, by contrast, provides no built-in error tracing to reveal an error’s origin.
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Understanding dbt: basics and best practices

Sep 5, 2025 By Nicholas Thomson In Datadog
Data Build Tool (dbt) is an open source analytics engineering framework that enables teams to transform raw data that has been loaded into a warehouse like Snowflake, BigQuery, Redshift, or Databricks using SQL-based workflows. dbt is available in two main forms: dbt Core, the free and open source CLI tool, and dbt Cloud, a managed platform that adds scheduling, UI support, collaboration tools, and native integrations.
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Visually identify and prioritize security risks using Cloudcraft

Sep 4, 2025 By Colten Woo In Datadog
As cloud infrastructure becomes more dynamic and distributed, DevOps and security teams need to quickly detect risks and understand their context: where those risks live, how critical they are, and how to respond effectively. By surfacing misconfigurations, vulnerabilities, sensitive data risks, and identity threats directly on a real-time diagram of your infrastructure, Cloudcraft helps teams identify, prioritize, and remediate security issues at scale.
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This Month in Datadog - August 2025

Sep 3, 2025 By Datadog In Datadog
In the August episode of This Month in Datadog, Jeremy shares how you can make more informed cloud cost decisions, gain insights into your LiteLLM-powered applications, and secure Kubernetes infrastructure with Datadog Workload Protection. Later in the episode, Danny puts the spotlight on Datadog Kubernetes Autoscaling, which helps you deliver cost savings without sacrificing performance.
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Cost Controls and so Much More: Issue Detection Through Usage Analysis

Sep 3, 2025 By Datadog In Datadog
Keeping tabs on cloud spending across multiple organizations and vendors, including Datadog, can be tough and costly. If you're not tracking expenses, you're also missing other critical insights. The Flight Centre Travel Group (FCTG) faced this when moving to Datadog, needing to monitor costs across numerous organizations and over 180 Azure subscriptions. After a rapid migration, new cost reports quickly revealed more than just financial benefits. Unusual spending patterns often highlighted incidents, bugs, or security issues, offering early warnings about internal system problems.
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Bridging the Gap: Legacy Systems and Modern Observability

Sep 3, 2025 By Datadog In Datadog
Technology moves quickly and while the spotlight has shifted to dynamic, cloud-based systems, many organizations have legacy applications and infrastructure that they must maintain. In this fireside chat, Datadog’s Matt Moore (Principal Observability Strategist) will host James Flores (Enterprise Systems Engineer) at Australian Community Media to discuss their journey of modernization and bridging legacy systems with the cloud using a bit of ingenuity and observability.
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