The rise of business observability
Every organization runs on data. But for most leaders, the challenge is clarity. Traditional dashboards and reports often arrive too late, and system-level metrics don’t explain the business consequences of…
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How AI Turns Monitoring From “What Now?” Into “What’s Next?”
Every on-call engineer knows the moment. The dashboard turns red across multiple services, the PagerDuty notification fires, and the investigation begins. You can see that something is broken. Latency is…
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Reduce CDN log costs with searchable archives
Engineering teams that manage high-volume log sources, such as content delivery network (CDN) edges, streaming platforms, and authentication systems, often have to make a difficult retention tradeoff. Indexing every event…
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The High-Performance DBA: Total Recall, Part 2: SQL Server Memory Issues
In the first post in this series, I walked through how SQL Server uses memory and which configuration habits make life easier for DBAs; in this follow-up, I want to…
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What’s new in Dynatrace Managed 1.340 — Dynatrace Managed Docs
Release notes 4-min read Updated on Jun 10, 2026 Rollout start on Jun 08, 2026 This page showcases new features, changes, and bug fixes in Dynatrace Managed version 1.340. It…
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A guide to seeing digital experience through your user’s eyes
In digital experience, the difference between a conversion and a bounce often comes down to a split-second moment of frustration. But metrics alone can’t always tell you why a user…
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Preparing for OMB M-26-14: How Datadog supports federal logging maturity
Memorandum M-26-14 from the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) marks a significant evolution in federal cybersecurity guidance, establishing a new risk-based framework for logging and network visibility across the…
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LLMs and AI Chatbots and Agentic Agents (Oh my!)
Hi there, this is the first of a few posts trying to help folks who are trying to understand a little more about AI so that some of the jargon…
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Why “good enough” observability fails in the age of agentic AI
Agentic AI is breaking the mold of what organizations need from observability. Fragmented, correlation-dependent observability platforms are no longer “good enough.” Enterprises with dynamic, hybrid environments require observability that provides…
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The inside story of a SaaS routing decision gone wrong (or right)
Most operations teams trust their green dashboards. If internal monitoring looks healthy, the assumption is that the app is performing fine. But as the Internet keeps proving, what’s green inside…
