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…
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How we saved over $3 million in idle compute costs with Datadog Kubernetes Autoscaling
At Datadog, our broad Kubernetes footprint amplifies the significance of a familiar autoscaling tradeoff: Overprovisioning wastes cloud spend, while underprovisioning threatens reliability. We built Datadog Kubernetes Autoscaling (DKA) to help…
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AI Word of the Day: Confabulation — SolarWinds TechPod 109
Episode Transcript Chrystal Taylor:In case you missed it, on April 15th, SolarWinds introduced SW1, a context aware digital teammate designed to support your path to autonomous operational resilience. Learn more…
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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…
