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Six-peat! Once Again, IDC Ranks Splunk #1 in ITOA Market Share

We just got some great news. IDC has ranked Splunk #1 for both market share and market revenue in their IDC Worldwide IT Operations Analytics Software Market Shares, 2019 report. This is the sixth year in a row IDC has ranked Splunk as #1 in ITOA. While we’re proud of this recognition, let me say right away that our success is due to the continued success of our customers, and we’re very grateful for the opportunity to be a part of it.

Monitor code deployments with Deployment Tracking in Datadog APM

Continuous integration and continuous delivery (CI/CD) pipelines have become fundamental to modern software development and code deployment. Implementing CI/CD practices can let teams deploy code more quickly and efficiently. But with these methods come a number of new challenges: bad code deploys are a major source of downtime and can lead to a loss of revenue and customer trust.

Tales from the ups and downs of running a cloud

"A long time ago in a data centre far, far away.... Our first episode takes us back to the early days of launching Civo, where we had a fledgling Ceph cluster with a bunch of SSDs in each. Those were darker times, in the early days of OpenStack. As time went by the cluster grew, new bigger nodes were added along with bigger disks.

Intro to synthetic monitoring - and Grafana Labs' new iteration on worldPing

Often there’s a focus on how a service is running from the perspective of the organization. But what does service health monitoring look like from the perspective of a user? Today, understanding your end users’ experience is a key component of ensuring your website or application is functioning correctly. Having a website that is performing well regardless of location, load, or connection type is no longer a nice-to-have, but rather a requirement.

Introducing the AWS X-Ray integration with Grafana

In collaboration with the AWS team, we have just launched another AWS integration, the X-ray data source. Combined with the CloudWatch and Timestream integrations, the AWS X-Ray data source simplifies monitoring and triaging with one Grafana console. The addition of the AWS X-ray data source reflects Grafana’s commitment to becoming a full observability platform that supports distributed tracing as well as metrics and logs.

Top Three Takeaways From Our Multi-Cloud Connectivity Webinar

The move to a multi-cloud environment brings with it many new considerations for an enterprises. Among those is a new approaching to networking. In our recent webinar, Jay Turner, Vice President of Development and Operations, and Neil Templeton VP, Marketing at PCCW Global, looked at some of the common challenges facing enterprises as they connect to more clouds, and identified some new ways to manage these connections more effectively. Here’s some of the tips you might have missed…

3 + 9 Quick Video Meeting Tips We Use Every Day

Here at Sleuth, we live in Zoom, and have accumulated a list of tips to make video meetings better. I'm going to talk about three quick tips to go from a muddled dungeon dweller to a clear, engaging talking head, all without spending a dime. If you want even more, the above video shows you 9 more tips, including one advanced (but still completely free) tip to turn a video call into a real-time broadcast experience.