Level Up Your DBA Skills: Database Management Videos
Database teams have a lot to handle: keeping systems fast and reliable, managing costs, and adapting to constant changes. To help, we created a range of webinars on performance, automation,…
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Beyond performance monitoring: Understand the user experience with Grafana Cloud Frontend Observability
You’ve optimized your Largest Contentful Paint. Your Time to First Byte is under 200ms. Your Lighthouse scores are green. And yet, your checkout conversion rate is quietly dropping. A segment…
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Interrogate your Kubernetes topology graph with Dynatrace
A hands-on guide to Dynatrace Smartscape on Grail for SREs — impact radius, ownership, and incident scope in three DQL queries. Dynatrace Smartscape on Grail models your entire Kubernetes environment…
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Monitoring from the user’s perspective
For years, organizations have relied on Application Performance Monitoring (APM) as the backbone of their observability strategy. The idea was simple: collect as many logs, metrics, and traces as possible,…
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How to migrate feature flags without breaking production
Feature flag migrations have a reputation problem. Ask anybody who’s been through one before and you’ll hear the stories, usually from someone still a little frustrated about a bad cutover,…
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The High-Performance DBA: Total Recall, Part 1: SQL Server Memory Best Practices
Memory problems rarely announce themselves clearly. Instead, they show up as long-running queries, random slowdowns, heavy I/O, and vague “SQL Server is slow” style tickets with very little detail. That’s exactly…
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APM vs Observability: Observing beyond APM
APM vs Observability: Observing beyond APM In my previous post I made a bold, sweeping statement that APM is not – in the most specific sense – a subset of…
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Automatically enrich security logs with MITRE ATT&CK context before they reach your SIEM
To detect and investigate threats, security teams need to collect telemetry data from identity providers, cloud platforms, web application firewalls, and endpoints. But these diverse sources describe the same tactics,…
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Database Observability: Faster Root Cause Analysis Starts With Better UX
In a high-pressure production outage, the primary enemy isn’t just database latency. It’s the clock. Historically, teams have struggled to diagnose performance regressions in distributed environments because navigation friction slows…
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Are your cloud firewalls and DDoS protection really working?
Every business deploys firewalls and DDoS protection assuming inbound traffic will pass through them. In practice, that assumption often breaks. Traffic from specific ISPs or regions can bypass mitigation entirely…
