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Datadog acquires Logmatic.io

We have added log processing and analytics to Datadog, through our acquisition of Logmatic.io.

How to monitor Lambda functions

Learn how you can use Datadog to monitor the performance of your serverless applications running on AWS Lambda.

Tracing asynchronous Python code with Datadog APM

Quickly gain insights into your async Python code with APM's built-in support for libraries like asyncio and gevent.

How Datadog helps keep the Drupal project's sites and services running

See how Drupal uses Datadog to monitor MySQL, Fastly, and other services that power its infrastructure.

How to monitor Kubernetes + Docker with Datadog

Learn how to set up comprehensive monitoring for your Kubernetes container infrastructure in our how-to guide.

3 lessons learned from an Elasticsearch game day

We ran a game day to manually trigger failures in one of our Elasticsearch clusters—here's what happened.

How Peloton ensures a smooth ride for a growing user base

Peloton uses Datadog APM to reduce latency in their user-facing, real-time cycling application.

Resolve incidents faster with Datadog’s new Triggered Monitors page

Investigate and resolve alerts in real time with the new Triggered Monitors page.

Monitor AWS S3 with Datadog

Monitor AWS S3 metrics for insight into the performance and usage of your cloud storage service.

Join us at Datadog Summit Austin

Learn from others in the Datadog community and get hands-on training from Datadog engineers.

New feature roundup: Alerting

Let's take a look at some of our newer alerting features, including anomaly detection and composite monitors.

New feature roundup: Integrations and data collection

In this series, we will highlight noteworthy features and enhancements we added over the past year.

New feature roundup: Visualization and collaboration

Notebooks and flame graphs are among Datadog's latest and greatest visualization and collaboration features.

Introducing service-level alerts in Datadog APM

Create service-level application alerts in Datadog with our new APM monitors.

Monitor Google Cloud SQL performance with Datadog

Ensure that your Cloud SQL instances (and the rest of your Google Cloud services) are running smoothly.

Monitoring the NYC subway system with Datadog

See at a glance whether your subway line is up and running with our new dashboard.

Monitor AWS CodeDeploy with Datadog

Monitor AWS CodeDeploy along with other Amazon services and application components.

Monitor IoT devices with Home Assistant and Datadog

Make your smart home even smarter by analyzing trends and setting alerts on Home Assistant metrics and events.

Optimize Cloud Foundry cluster health with Datadog

Monitor your Cloud Foundry clusters to maintain the health and performance of your applications.

New in Datadog: Search, filter, and find your monitors faster

Browse, search, and organize your Datadog monitors with the new Manage Monitors page.

Monitor Azure Storage with Datadog

Graph, correlate, and alert on Azure Storage along with the rest of your Azure services.

Monitor Akka-based applications with Lightbend + Datadog

Monitor your Akka-based Reactive applications with Lightbend and Datadog for real-time insights into ...

Managing Datadog with Terraform

You can manage your Datadog alerts, timeboards, and more with HashiCorp's Terraform.

Monitoring services and setting SLAs with Datadog

In this post, we'll explain how to set SLAs and monitor service-level metrics over time.

Installing Datadog on Mesos with DC/OS

Roll out Datadog across your DC/OS cluster and set up automated monitoring in minutes.

How to collect Apache performance metrics

Learn how to collect metrics from your web servers, using native and open source tools.

How to monitor Apache web server with Datadog

Learn how to use Datadog to monitor Apache web server metrics.

Monitoring Apache web server performance

In this post, we'll explore how Apache works, and discuss the key performance metrics that you should monitor.

Introducing composite monitors

Refine your infrastructure alerting with composite monitors for fewer, richer, more actionable alerts. Try it ...

How to collect Google Compute Engine metrics

Learn how to collect key GCE metrics.

Monitoring Google Compute Engine metrics

Identify and track Google Compute Engine's key performance metrics

How to monitor Google Compute Engine with Datadog

Learn how to use Datadog to collect Google Compute Engine metrics.

CloudCheckr + Datadog: Better rightsizing of cloud resources

Send Datadog metrics to CloudCheckr to get better insight into cloud usage.

Datadog + SOC 2: Reaffirming our commitment to security

We're pleased to announce the availability of our SOC 2 compliance audit

Announcing next-generation APM

To troubleshoot modern applications, you need to understand both the code and the infrastructure

Introducing real-time monitoring for Pusher

You can now monitor your real-time Pusher connections and messages in Datadog.

Introducing new scaled algorithms for improved outlier detection

Our new outlier detection algorithms take magnitude and dispersion into account for better alerting.

Monitor Jenkins jobs with Datadog

Monitor Jenkins with Datadog to gain insights into job history and trends.

Building blocks: Introducing observability through monitoring

Learn how you can build a culture of observability in your organization

Monitor Amazon Kinesis Firehose performance

Datadog now integrates with Amazon Kinesis Firehose

Data-driven storytelling with Datadog Notebooks

Create rich, shareable postmortems and runbooks with the new Notebooks feature.

Monitor your Azure Event Hubs with Datadog

Now you can monitor your streaming data hubs in Azure using Datadog.

Monitor Amazon Elasticsearch Service with Datadog

Our integration helps you visualize and alert on key performance metrics.

Monitor your AWS ECS platform with Convox and Datadog

Learn how you can introduce observability to your organization through monitoring

NGINX 502 Bad Gateway: Gunicorn

Troubleshooting NGINX 502 errors with Gunicorn as the application server

NGINX 502 Bad Gateway: PHP-FPM

Tips on troubleshooting NGINX 502 errors when using PHP-FPM as the application server

3 clear trends in ECS adoption

Our new research shows Amazon's ECS steadily gaining steam

Streamline support with Datadog's new Zendesk integration

Try the new Zendesk integration and close the gap between customer experience and infrastructure health.

How to collect and graph Kubernetes metrics

In this post you will learn how you can manually set up metric collection, storage, and visualization using ...

Monitoring Kubernetes performance metrics

This part of the series digs into the different metrics you should monitor when using Kubernetes as an ...

Monitoring Kubernetes with Datadog

Our Kubernetes and Docker integrations have been designed to tackle the considerable challenges of monitoring ...

Monitoring in the Kubernetes era

Part 1: How Kubernetes works and how it changes your monitoring strategies.

Datadog + New Relic: Monitor every layer of your stack

Datadog goes hand in hand with New Relic’s APM and Synthetics services, so you can monitor your app from every ...

How to resolve unassigned shards in Elasticsearch

Explore six ways to investigate and resolve issues with unassigned Elasticsearch shards.

Introducing anomaly detection in Datadog

Anomaly detection analyzes recent metric patterns to identify abnormalities.

How to collect Windows Server 2012 metrics

Windows offers numerous, powerful tools for collecting, visualizing, and alerting on performance counters, ...

Monitoring Windows Server 2012 with Datadog

You've read about the key metrics, events, and services to monitor in Windows Server 2012, now read how to ...

Monitoring Windows Server 2012

Windows provides a wealth of performance data. In this article we detail the metrics, events, and services to ...

Upgrade your issue tracking with JIRA and Datadog

Datadog’s new JIRA integration streamlines management of issues related to your infrastructure or application ...

Monitor ActiveMQ metrics and performance

Monitor ActiveMQ metrics with Datadog for increased performance.

Monitor Azure Redis Cache with Datadog

You can now monitor Azure Redis Cache metrics alongside your Azure VMs, Azure App Service, Azure SQL ...

Monitor your Azure Logic Apps with Datadog

If you're building critical workflows in Azure Logic Apps to automate your responses to events, you want to ...

How to collect Elasticsearch metrics

In this post, we'll show you a few of the tools you can use to collect and monitor key Elasticsearch ...

How to monitor Elasticsearch performance

In this post, we'll cover how Elasticsearch works, and explore the key performance metrics that you should ...

How to monitor Elasticsearch with Datadog

You've learned about the key Elasticsearch metrics, and how to collect them natively. Now see how easy it is ...

How to solve 5 Elasticsearch performance and scaling problems

This article will walk through five common Elasticsearch performance issues, and how to deal with them.

Datadog in the wild: 5 fun projects

From beer consumption to sleeping, restroom availability to energy use, community members are using monitoring ...

Monitor Google Compute Engine performance with Datadog

Monitor your Google Compute Engine performance to spot hiccups and bottlenecks, to enable rapid investigation ...

Dashing Dashboard Competition

Have you built beautiful dashboards with Datadog? If so, the Datadog team would love to showcase your hard ...

Add Datadog to PagerDuty

On-call teams, rejoice! PagerDuty’s Add-ons puts the power of Datadog dashboards and graphs directly within ...

Free Datadog accounts for students

Students get a free Datadog Pro account for up to 10 hosts. Offered in partnership with GitHub Education.

Automatically summarize alert barrages with Alert Rollup

Limit in their tracks with Datadog's new Alert Rollup, which delivers concise, notification summaries to your ...

Monitor Ceph: From node status to cluster-wide performance

Monitor Ceph with Datadog for historical and infrastructure-wide context on throughput and latency.

Monitor AWS Redshift with Datadog

Monitor AWS Redshift, the fully-managed data warehouse designed to handle petabyte-scale datasets, with ...

Puppet + Datadog: Automate + monitor your systems

Monitor Puppet with Datadog's new integration to gain visibility into its performance as it defines, manages, ...

Visualizing trends with regression lines

When you care more about how a metric is trending over time and less about its exact value at every instant, ...

Monitoring AWS Lambda functions with Datadog

AWS Lambda monitoring for your serverless applications and functions with Datadog.

Metrics and logs: Datadog + Sumo Logic

Sumo Logic performance is easily optimized with Datadog for better log and metric cooperation. Parse and ...

Monitor Lighttpd web server metrics with Datadog

Monitor your Lighttpd web server metrics automatically with Datadog's out-of-the-box dashboard for easy ...

Monitor your Azure App Service applications with Datadog

Monitor your Azure App Service applications right alongside your Azure SQL Databases and the rest of your ...

Datadog teams with IMMUNIO for real-time app security threat monitoring

Integrate IMMUNIO's real-time security intelligence into the other operational data Datadog provides about ...

Signal Sciences + Datadog: improving web application security

The Signal Sciences integration with Datadog brings modern web application security and full-stack awareness ...

Hadoop architectural overview

Hadoop architecture: explore each of the technologies that compose a typical Hadoop deployment, and see how ...

How to collect Hadoop metrics

Monitoring Hadoop metrics, including Hadoop YARN stats, can help you optimize your infrastructure performance.

How to monitor Hadoop metrics

In this article we dive deep into the metrics of each of Hadoop's components: HDFS, YARN, MapReduce, and ...

How to monitor Hadoop with Datadog

You've learned the important metrics, and seen how to collect them natively. Now see how easy it is to monitor ...

Monitor your Azure SQL Databases with Datadog

Now you can monitor the performance and utilization of your Azure SQL Databases alongside your Azure VMs and ...

Metric graphs 101: Graphing anti-patterns

In this post, we explore three ways that metric graphs are commonly misused and then suggest better solutions ...

Monitoring Pokémon GO service status: Datadog catches it all

Every time Pokémon GO won’t work correctly, you can now check www.IsPokemonGODownOrNot.com to see if it’s just ...

Monitoring CouchDB performance with Datadog

Monitoring CouchDB with Datadog helps you track performance, resources, and even security in real time.

2016-07-08 Security Notice

As we previously reported...

Monitor your AWS Trusted Advisor Service Limit Checks with Datadog

Monitor AWS Trusted Advisor Service Limit Check metrics easily and display them on an out-of-the-box dashboard ...

Monitor your AWS OpsWorks configuration management

Monitor AWS OpsWorks metrics with Datadog to visualize and assess how effectively OpsWorks is managing your ...

Monitor Tomcat metrics with Datadog

Monitor Tomcat metrics easily, including servlet metrics, in one out-of-the-box dashboard with Datadog's ...

Monitor Gunicorn performance with Datadog

Monitor Gunicorn performance with Datadog to collect and visualize your web server metrics alongside the rest ...

Monitor Postfix queue performance

Monitor Postfix queue performance with Datadog to collect, visualize, aggregate, and correlate your email ...

Autodiscovery: Tracking services across ephemeral containers

You can now continuously monitor your Docker infrastructure even as it expands, contracts, and shifts across ...

Monitor Kong with our new Datadog integration

Guest post by Shashi Ranjan, Backend Engineer at Mashape. It is now easy to use Datadog to monitor Kong's key ...

CloudHealth + Datadog: Effectively manage your cloud assets

Datadog and CloudHealth bring you end-to-end visibility across every dimension of your cloud environment with ...

Monitor DynDNS with Datadog

Monitor DynDNS with the new Datadog integration to easily visualize and monitor changes across your zones as ...

Easy JMX discovery & browsing with the open source Agent

The Datadog Agent is bundled with two tools to help you collect JMX metrics: JMXFetch and Jmxterm. In this ...

Monitor your Mesos cluster with Datadog

Mesos can help you efficiently allocate resources to your applications, but seeing what's happening across the ...

Monitor AWS SES with Datadog

Datadog integrates with AWS SES, allowing you to receive alerts on all aspects of your SES performance.

Monitor AWS VPC with Datadog

Monitor AWS VPC components with Datadog, correlate metrics across your environment, and gain actionable ...

Streamline monitoring with Rollbar and Datadog

Streamline your error monitoring with Datadog's new Rollbar integration and spend less time debugging issues. ...

Monitor third-party service statuses from StatusPage.io

The new Statuspage.io integration alerts you in Datadog whenever your third-party service statuses change for ...

Collecting MongoDB metrics and statistics

There are three ways to collect MongoDB metrics from your hosts: using utilities, database commands, or a ...

How to monitor MongoDB performance with Datadog

Monitor MongoDB with a robust system that collects, aggregates, and visualizes MongoDB metrics alongside the ...

Monitoring MongoDB performance metrics (MMAP)

By properly monitoring MongoDB you can quickly spot slowdowns, or pressing resource limitations, and know how ...

Monitoring MongoDB performance metrics (WiredTiger)

Monitoring MongoDB performance helps you quickly spot slowdowns, or pressing resource limitations, and know ...

Hadoop & Spark monitoring with Datadog

Using Datadog you can now immediately start monitoring the four most widely-used technologies in the Hadoop ...

Resolve performance issues faster with Flowdock and Datadog

Find and resolve performance issues in your infrastructure quickly with the new Flowdock integration, which ...

Top 5 ways to improve your AWS EC2 performance

Learn about the five most common EC2 performance issues, why they occur, how to detect them, and best ...

Metric graphs 101: Summary graphs

Learn how to effectively use summary graphs: visualizations that flatten a particular span of time to ...

Collecting MySQL statistics and metrics

Learn how to monitor MySQL server status variables for high-level summary metrics, plus access the performance ...

Monitoring MySQL performance metrics

A guide to the key metrics for MySQL and its default storage engine, InnoDB. Learn to track latency, ...

MySQL monitoring with Datadog

For total visibility into your database’s health and performance, you need a monitoring system that collects ...

Monitor AWS GovCloud (US) with Datadog

Visualize and correlate your AWS GovCloud (US) metrics throughout your stack easily with an out-of-the-box ...

Collecting Kafka performance metrics

Kafka performance and resource utilization metrics are emitted in large numbers. Read different options for ...

Monitoring Kafka performance metrics

Monitoring Kafka's key performance metrics can help you keep your cluster running smoothly at high throughput. ...

Monitoring Kafka with Datadog

Kafka deployments rely on additional software not included with Kafka itself, in particular Apache ZooKeeper. ...

The power of tagged metrics

Tagged metrics let you add infrastructural dimensions to your metrics on the fly—without modifying the way ...

AWS collaboration: RDS enhanced metrics

AWS RDS enhanced metrics are now available in your infrastructure dashboards via a collaboration between AWS ...

Metric graphs 101: Timeseries graphs

To help you effectively visualize your metrics, this post explores 4 types of timeseries graphs: Line graphs, ...

Units and descriptions: Understand any metric

We've just rolled out a comprehensive metadata catalog, with measurement units and brief descriptions for some ...

Monitor View: A window into Datadog's monitoring engine

Monitor view lets you see your data through Datadog's eyes, making it easier than ever to identify the exact ...

OpenStack: host aggregates, flavors, and availability zones

When discussing OpenStack, correct word choice is essential. In this article we disambiguate host aggregates, ...

Host Maps just got better

Host Maps let you see all of your hosts together in one place, and today we have released four new features ...

Install OpenStack in two commands for dev and test

Deploying DevStack is not without its challenges. Learn how to install OpenStack with reproducible, automated ...

How Lithium monitors OpenStack

Lithium developers relied on the Horizon interface and command line tools to access OpenStack metrics. See how ...

Tiered alerts: Urgency-aware alerting

With Datadog's new tiered alerts, you can trigger notifications that go to different people, or via different ...

How the Apache Software Foundation monitors with Datadog

Geoffrey Corey shares the Apache Software Foundation's monitoring journey and how and why they use Datadog to ...

Why 2016 is the year of monitoring at scale

Since launching Datadog, we've seen our thesis validated on a far broader scale than we had originally ...

Ansible + Datadog: Monitor your automation, automate your monitoring

When you are managing a large number of servers, a good infrastructure automation tool can make your life much ...

How Connectifier unfroze MongoDB with Datadog

Learn how Connectifier uses Datadog to monitor MongoDB performance metrics and keep their infrastructure ...

How iHeartRadio monitors Docker performance

There was just one thing about Docker performance that made iHeartRadio unhappy: they had no visibility into ...

Collecting metrics and notifications from OpenStack Nova

This article shows you how to collect OpenStack metrics from a variety of sources to give you a complete view ...

Datadog now supports OpenStack monitoring

OpenStack monitoring is now available with Datadog. Try our new integration today.

Monitor OpenStack with Datadog

Datadog's OpenStack monitoring lets you visualize, alert, and correlate metrics across your entire ...

Monitoring OpenStack Nova

In this series of posts we dive into monitoring OpenStack Nova, the OpenStack Compute module, and explain its ...

Collecting ElastiCache metrics + its Redis/Memcached metrics

This article covers three different ways to access ElastiCache metrics from AWS CloudWatch, as well as the ...

How Coursera monitors ElastiCache and Memcached performance

Go behind the scenes with Coursera's engineering team to learn best practices for using ElastiCache, keeping ...

Monitoring ElastiCache performance metrics with Redis or Memcached

Optimizing your ElastiCache performance can significantly increase your application's performance and user ...

How to collect Cassandra metrics

Users can view key Cassandra metrics via nodetool on the command line, via the JConsole GUI, or via any ...

How to monitor Cassandra performance metrics

Learn to monitor Cassandra performance metrics including request throughput, latency, disk usage, and more for ...

Monitoring Cassandra with Datadog

Monitoring Cassandra with Datadog allows you to start capturing dozens of key metrics, graphing them, and ...

Monitor etcd performance to ensure consistent Docker configuration

As soon as you turn on the Datadog etcd integration, you’ll be ready to monitor etcd with a default ...

How to collect Aurora metrics

Collect all the Aurora metrics you need for production database monitoring, both from AWS CloudWatch and from ...

Monitor Aurora using Datadog

This tutorial shows you how to connect and monitor Aurora on RDS with Datadog for comprehensive alerting and ...

Monitoring Amazon Aurora performance metrics

Learn how monitoring Amazon Aurora, Amazon's MySQL-compatible database, can help your infrastructure ...

Corral your Docker containers with Kubernetes monitoring

Monitoring your containers is crucial in order to ensure good application performance, but it brings new ...

How to collect Docker metrics

Learn how to collect Docker metrics via three mechanisms: pseudo-files in sysfs, the stats command, and API.

How to monitor Docker resource metrics

Docker resources like CPU, memory, I/O, and network are controlled by cgroups, so Docker resource metrics are ...

How to collect HAProxy metrics

Once you've figured out what to monitor, it's time to collect HAProxy metrics! Use either HAProxy's built-in ...

Monitor HAProxy with Datadog

Go beyond ad-hoc metric inspection and monitor HAProxy with Datadog to integrate and correlate metrics across ...

Monitoring HAProxy performance metrics

Effectively manage your load balancer with this deep dive into monitoring HAProxy's performance metrics.

Datadog and Moxtra: Tracking performance the right way

Need help tracking infrastructure performance? Datadog x Moxtra provide an agile solution to ensure your team ...

The Docker monitoring problem

Docker is taking the infrastructure world by storm. But, Docker monitoring can be significantly more difficult ...

Monitor Consul health and performance with Datadog

Monitor Consul health and performance with Datadog's Consul integration.

How to collect RDS MySQL metrics

Collect MYSQL metrics as well as Cloudwatch metrics for a comprehensive view of RDS performance. This post ...

Monitor RDS MySQL using Datadog

Go beyond ad hoc metric inspection with a monitoring system that integrates and correlates RDS metrics with ...

Monitoring RDS MySQL performance metrics

Users have access to hundreds of RDS MySQL performance metrics, but it's not easy to tell what you should ...

AWS outage? Datadog alerts you

No service is foolproof. Even the most reliable ones, like Amazon Web Services, can experience outages. Even ...

Event alerts: another way to trigger notifications

What if you want to be alerted when a specific event occurs? With Datadog’s new event alerts, you can trigger ...

How to collect AWS ELB metrics

We explain three ways to access ELB metrics easily and how using access logs can aid in investigating specific ...

Monitor ELB performance with Datadog

Datadog lets you collect and view ELB metrics, access their historical evolution, and slice and dice them ...

Top ELB health and performance metrics

ELB performance is critical to any scalable infrastructure as the first gateway between users and your ...

Datadog Guide to AWS re:Invent 2015

Datadog is here with our session picks for the conference

Introducing outlier detection in Datadog

Datadog's new outlier detection feature allows you to automatically identify any host (or group of hosts) that ...

Monitor Docker on AWS ECS

ECS is a new service from AWS that automatically manages your Docker containers for you. Datadog worked ...

Outlier detection in Datadog: A look at the algorithms

Technical details behind the implementation of the DBSCAN and MAD algorithms for automated outlier detection ...

How Medium monitors DynamoDB performance

In this article we share with you DynamoDB lessons that Medium learned over the last few years, and discuss ...

How to collect DynamoDB metrics

This part of the article is all about collecting native DynamoDB metrics, available exclusively through ...

Top DynamoDB performance metrics

In order to correctly provision your DynamoDB machines, and to keep them running smoothly, it is important to ...

How to collect Redis metrics

Redis provides extensive monitoring out of the box. As mentioned in the first post of this series, the info ...

How to monitor Redis performance metrics

Redis is a popular in-memory key/value data store. Known for its performance and simple onboarding, Redis has ...

Monitor Redis using Datadog

To implement ongoing, meaningful monitoring, you will need a dedicated system that allows you to store, ...

Monitor Amazon Kinesis performance

If you are using Kinesis in production, you probably want to know right away if there are any slowdowns or ...

Monitor Windows app metrics and events with Datadog’s WMI and Microsoft Event Viewer integrations

Datadog’s StatsD .NET port lets you import custom metrics from Windows applications for graphing, analysis, ...

How to collect Azure metrics

There are at least three main ways to access metrics from Microsoft Azure VMs: you can graph and monitor Azure ...

How to monitor Microsoft Azure VMs

Monitor Azure metrics at a VM level, whether you run Linux or Windows on Azure, to make sure that your servers ...

Monitor Azure VMs using Datadog

Monitor your Azure performance with Datadog and easily collect, view, and correlate metrics from across your ...

Monitor ElastiCache with AWS metrics + native metrics

With our new ElastiCache integration, you can monitor ElastiCache metrics along with the native metrics from ...

Monitor API Performance with Runscope and Datadog

Monitor API performance for more targeted insights with Runscope, a suite of API performance monitoring and ...

How to collect Varnish metrics

Monitoring Varnish, part 2 of 3. This post will show you how to access Varnish metrics.

Monitor Varnish using Datadog

Monitoring Varnish, part 3 of 3. This post will show you how to quickly and properly monitor Varnish using ...

Top Varnish performance metrics

Monitoring Varnish, part 1 of 3. This post introduces the key Varnish performance metrics you can monitor to ...

Introducing Change Graphs: Compare metrics over time

Change Graphs are designed to help you instantly measure changes by highlighting differences in your metrics ...

New monitor status page: From alert to investigation in one click

Monitor Status page allows you to quickly pinpoint performance issues as soon as you’re alerted to a problem ...

Monitor process resource consumption at a glance

Monitor process resource consumption alongside your aggregate host-level resource consumption with Datadog.

Monitoring 101: Investigating performance issues

Once your monitoring system has notified you of real performance issues that require attention, its next job ...

Introducing developer mode for the Agent

Developer mode allows developers all over the world contribute to the open-source Datadog Agent with an easy ...

How to collect NGINX metrics

Monitoring NGINX, part 2 of 3. This post will show you how to configure NGINX to report metrics, and how to ...

How to monitor NGINX

Monitoring NGINX, part 1 of 3. Monitor NGINX with these key metrics to detect performance issues in your web ...

How to monitor NGINX with Datadog

Monitoring NGINX, part 3 of 3. This post will show you how to quickly and properly monitor NGINX performance ...

Track your PHP-FPM performance with Datadog

Monitor your PHP-FPM performance with Datadog's new integration to let you visualize and correlate with the ...

Monitor SSH endpoints with Datadog

With Datadog you can monitor SSH statuses and metrics, including SFTP response times, connection errors, and ...

Supervisor monitors your processes. Datadog monitors Supervisor.

Monitor Supervisor managed process counts, uptimes, and states automatically with the Datadog integration, as ...

Monitoring 101: Alerting on what matters

Automated alerts allow you to spot problems anywhere in your infrastructure, so that you can rapidly identify ...

Monitoring 101: Collecting the right data

Collect metrics and classify data so that you can receive meaningful, automated alerts about potential ...

Send custom events from your Microsoft .NET application

Events can now be sent straight from Microsoft .NET to DogStatsD. This allows you to correlate events ...

Datadog is a Docker Ecosystem Technology Partner

Datadog joins Docker's Ecosystem Technology Partner program

Learn from your alerts with the weekly Monitor Trend Report

Monitor Trends Reports are weekly alert reports sent to your inbox that highlight incontrovertible trends in ...

Introducing Azure monitoring with one-click Datadog deployment

Learn how to visualize and analyze your Azure metrics. With Datadog, your application and infrastructure ...

Introducing cluster-level service monitoring

Service monitoring lets you set alerts that trigger when a percentage of servers in a given cluster experience ...

Track detailed run-time performance data with mParticle and Datadog

Learn now to create a complete, unified view of system activity and performance that encompasses mobile, ...

Cumulus Linux Switch Monitoring with Datadog

Cumulus Linux switch monitoring allows admins to easily collaborate to troubleshoot complex problems that ...

Solve performance problems faster with Campfire and Datadog

Bring Datadog alerts and events directly to your Campfire chat rooms and keep everyone up-to-date on ...

Send Datadog alerts and events to ChatWork

Send Datadog alerts to ChatWork and keep your team up-to-date on performance issues with Datadog's Chatwork ...

Monitor Riak CS performance and availability

Monitor Riak CS performance metrics, assesses the availability of each Riak CS host in your cluster and sends ...

Datadog is now Datadoge

Datadog is now Datadoge

Create ServiceNow tickets from Datadog alerts

Create ServiceNow tickets from triggered alarms in Datadog and add Datadog-generated graphs and comments to ...

GopherCon India talk - Go faster: optimizing Go programs

In this video, Software Engineer and Gopher, Jason Moiron describes various optimization techniques Datadog ...

Track performance impact of code changes with TeamCity and Datadog

Track and analyze TeamCity builds and deploys alongside your other applications’ performance metrics and ...

Real-time graph annotations

Graph annotations let you highlight the noteworthy things you find on metric graphs and immediately start a ...

Host Maps part 2: quick guide

Learn a new way of using Datadog to understand what is happening on all your hosts right now to make your ...

Introducing Host Maps: know thy infrastructure

See all of your hosts together on one screen, grouped and filtered however you want, with metrics made ...

Mute Datadog alerts for planned downtime

Learn how muting alerts during planned downtime can help you more easily identify the most critical issues ...

Datadog in the wild: Fixing slow writes on AWS Elastic Block Store

Learn how to avoid ever having storage problems affect your users using AWS Elastic Block Store (EBS) and good ...

Introducing availability monitoring for Windows Services

Learn how you can have full visibility into Windows Services availability status (up or down) and can get ...

How to monitor Fluentd with Datadog

Fluentd is a versatile tool to collect application and server logs. Learn how to visualize and monitor Fluentd ...

Monitor AWS SNS metrics with Datadog

This integration lets Datadog send and receive AWS SNS notifications, correlate messages with AWS SNS metrics ...

Datadog Acquires Mortar Data

Today, we're very pleased to announce that all of the Mortar team and technology are now part of Datadog.

Instrument your Go apps with Expvar and Datadog

Learn how to expose expvar metrics as a Datadog metric to monitor your Go application performance.

Keep support on the same page with the Salesforce Desk integration

Learn how Datadog's Salesforce Desk integration helps your team stay on top of support issues and how they ...

Inspeqtor Process Monitoring with Datadog

Inspeqtor Process Monitoring with Datadog makes it easy to find problems and then take action to solve those ...

Introducing JMX custom tagging

JMX custom tagging is now a reality! Create custom tags that are more descriptive and helpful. Learn more.

Monitoring Apache processes with Datadog

Learn how monitoring Apache with Datadog's built in process monitoring function and advanced graphing features ...

Introducing Availability Monitoring

Availability Monitoring introduces five new kinds of monitors on top of existing metric-based ones to know ...

Announcing Datadog Agent 5.1 with support for Btrfs and Go expvar

Introducing support of Btrfs and Go expvar and expanded support of our PostgreSQL, Jenkins, MongoDB and ...

Monitor Google App Engine with Datadog

Visualize, analyze, and alert on performance metrics from your Google Cloud Platform infrastructure and GAE ...

Sending Datadog Events via Email

Learn how to send your performance monitoring events from all of your applications to Datadog via email. Free ...

Emacs fans rejoice: Datadog mode is here

Learn how to implement some of the Datadog API within Emacs, to quickly browse a dash or query a metric ...

Monitor Amazon SQS message traffic with Datadog

Learn how to monitor Amazon SQS message queues, their traffic patterns, and the state of the messages to ...

Easy ranking with the new Top Lists

Identify and understand the best- or worst-performing components in your infrastructure with Top Lists for ...

Unified vSphere monitoring with Datadog

Datadog helps you understand your entire infrastructure through unified Vsphere monitoring, from the ESXi host ...

Datadog Agent 5.0: dead-simple installation, large-scale Docker support

The new Agent expands OS support and metric collection for new and existing integrations, including ...

The new Datadog Agent: Omnibus is your ticket out of dependency hell

Learn how Agent 5.0 lets you more easily add integrations and access new features including Omnibus for the ...

See all metrics at a glance with the new host summary panel

We're excited to announce the addition of the host summary panel, which is a new tool to simplify the process ...

Monitor CoreOS at scale with Datadog

Learn how to install and launch the Datadog Agent and monitor CoreOS in minutes. Learn more.

Push Datadog alerts and events to VictorOps

Learn how you can receive Datadog alerts into your VictorOps timeline, allowing you to get notified all ...

Send SMS alerts with customizable WebHooks and Twilio

In this blog post, we'll show how to add Twilio SMS alerts as a Datadog notification with WebHooks to ensure ...

End-to-end reliability testing with PagerDuty & Datadog

Learn how PagerDuty uses Datadog reliability testing of the third-party services necessary to deliver SMS ...

Crossing Streams: a love letter to Go io.Reader

The Go io.reader allows for better control buffering resulting in faster code that uses less memory. Learn ...

Happy Batman Day!

To celebrate Batman Day and provide all of you with a little fun we graphed the Batman Curve in Datadog using ...

Monitor key TokuMX metrics for MongoDB applications

TokuMX metrics monitoring, analysis, alerting, and reporting that gives you immediate, actionable insights ...

Troubleshoot your monitoring with Agent check status reporting

We now have at-a-glance Agent check status information to report integration issues in your hosts monitored by ...

See the performance impact of AWS changes with CloudTrail and Datadog

Understand the performance of your applications on AWS with CloudTrail and Datadog. Visualize and graph your ...

Docker-ize Datadog with agent containers

Learn how to monitor Docker performance with Datadog to easily visualize and alert on Docker metrics. Free 14 ...

Monitor Docker performance with Datadog

Learn how Docker monitoring with Datadog works to easily visualize and alert on Docker metrics. Free 14 day ...

Bitbucket + Datadog: See how code changes impact your infrastructure

Use the Bitbucket integration to track code changes and see code commits right next to any metric that you ...

Gain more control of alert notifications with new alerting features

Re-notifications and muted alert notifications for maintenance windows give you better control over your IT ...

Filter your Datadog Events Stream to pinpoint issues in your infrastructure

Learn how the Datadog Events Stream's search and filter functionality allows you filter out alerting "noise" ...

Instrument Memcached performance metrics with DogStatsD

Learn how to gain insight into the effectiveness of the cache for specific applications using Memcached ...

Correlate metrics and logs with Datadog and Splunk

Datadog's Splunk integration allows you to collaborate and visualize Splunk events in the context of your ...

Peloton Cycle integrates IT and business-level custom metrics

Learn how Peloton Cycle uses custom metrics to monitor their system health, send alerts inform the entire ...

Visualize StatsD metrics with Counts Graphing

Counts graphing is a new Datadog tool that will make it easier for you to choose the right visualization for ...

Monitor alerts and events with OpsGenie and Datadog

Monitor OpsGenie with the new Datadog integration which allows you to receive notifications for all important ...

Deploy Datadog on AWS Elastic Beanstalk

Elastic Beanstalk makes it super easy to deploy various web apps to EC2. Learn how to deploy the Datadog agent ...

Speed up your web applications with Memcached monitoring

In this blog, learn how to optimize web applications with focused Memcached monitoring.

Fast, Faster, Fastly: Monitor your Fastly performance metrics

You now have the ability to monitor Fastly performance metrics and correlate them with your other sources of ...

Collaborate, share, and track performance with Slack and Datadog

Keep your team up-to-date on performance issues, share graphs & send alerts & events to Slack chat rooms with ...

Monitor NGINX Plus Load Balancing Metrics

Monitor NGINX Plus metrics exposed by the status module with Datadog to get full visibility into your HTTP ...

Single Sign On Now Available for Datadog using SAML

Single Sign On is now available for Datadog using SAML. Learn how to enable the single sign on feature in ...

Customize Graphs and Dashboards with Graph Markers

Graph Markers give you the power to further customize your dashboard graphs and ScreenBoards making it easier ...

Go Performance Tales

Looking for performance tips for Go applications? In this blog, read about one software engineer's quest to ...

Monitor OpenShift performance metrics

Learn how the Datadog cartridge collects OpenShift performance metrics for real-time monitoring, graphing, and ...

Rank and filter performance metrics with top() function

The top() family of functions give you the power to rank, filter and visualize your performance metrics to ...

Monitor key Couchbase metrics

Learn how to monitor Couchbase metrics to measure its performance alongside application metrics and identify ...

Profile: From Lab Rats (and Bio) to Datadog

Read about Celene's journey going from a PHD Biologist to a Software Engineer at Datadog.

Understand AWS CloudWatch metrics and Datadog measurements

Gain additional data collection capabilities for your AWS Cloudwatch metrics with Datadog. Learn more.

Improve Java performance: Monitor JMX Metrics with Datadog

Don't get bogged down when trying to access and understand your JMX metrics in order to improve Java ...

More metrics, more visibility with the new Datadog Agent

The new Datadog Agent collects more metrics from existing integrations, in order to provide Datadog users with ...

AWS re:Invent talk: Instrumenting application stacks in a dynamically scaling environment

Learn why gaining visibility into an application stack's performance is necessary and challenging in a scaling ...

Your entire AWS infrastructure's health at a glance

Learn how to quickly assess the health of your entire Amazon infrastructure including deep EC2 monitoring.

PyData Talk - Building High-Volume Data Systems in the Python Ecosystem

This talk, given at PyData 2013, goes through building high throughput pipelines in the Python ecosystem with ...

Key AWS ELB Monitoring Metrics

AWS ELB monitoring can be daunting. Learn to monitor ELB metrics in a sane way. Read more...

Collaborative Bug Fixing with Datadog's Sentry Integration

With our new Sentry integration, you can now send Sentry events to your team on Datadog!

Velocity Interview with Datadog's CTO, Alexis Lê-Quôc

Alexis gave an interview at Velocity NY to explain the history behind the Datadog name, the user experience ...

Learning from AWS failure

Failures are a fact of life. AWS failure just gets more publicity. Instead let's focus on t he more ...

Don't fear the Agent: Agent-based monitoring

By using Agent-based monitoring, you get the nitty-gritty details faster than polling a service and relying on ...

Detecting Outliers in Cloud Infrastructure with Datadog Heatmaps

Datadog's new Heatmaps use color brightness as a 3rd dimension to let you instantly identify patterns for a ...

Triggered Alerts in Datadog - providing context to alerts

Datadog's new Triggered Alert screen works to make available important contextual information with one click ...

Are all AWS ECUs created equal?

In this post we look at the data publicly available about Elastic Compute Units (ECUs) and draw conclusions ...

AWS CPU Steal: How to detect it with Datadog

CPU steal is a fundamental property of virtual environments, but may lead to inconsistent performance for the ...

StatsD for .NET: DogStatsD

Alongside our Microsoft Event Viewer, IIS, and SQL Server integrations, you are now able to monitor custom ...

100x faster Postgres performance by changing 1 line

Use these step-by-step instructions to monitor slow Postgres queries to improve Postgres performance. Learn ...

Understanding AWS stolen CPU and how it affects your apps

Is AWS stolen CPU causing your AWS EBS Performance issues? Learn how to detect and resolve CPU stolen-related ...

StatsD, what it is and how it can help you

Learn what StatsD is, how it works, what sets it apart from the rest and what problems it solves.

AWS EBS latency and IOPS: The surprising truth

Performance issues with Amazon Web Services' Elastic Block Storage (EBS) are complex. Learn how to detect and ...

Share and discuss Datadog graphs, events, and alerts in HipChat

Bring Datadog metrics and alerts directly to your chat rooms with our HipChat integration.

Detecting AWS EBS performance issues with Datadog

AWS EBS performance issues are complex to understand, but monitoring can help you detect and resolve AWS EBS ...

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Getting optimal performance with AWS EBS Provisioned IOPS

Optimize your AWS EBS performance by using Provisioned IOPS. Learn more!

StatusPage.io Public Metrics - now with Datadog metrics

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Monitoring issues through HAProxy typically involves parsing the output of the HAProxy Status Page. Three ...

ScreenBoards: Your data, your way, in seconds

ScreenBoards. Did the world need yet another dashboard? Yes!

May NYC DevOps Meetup @ Datadog HQ [VIDEOS]

May DevOps NYC Meetup at Datadog HQ. Hacking your daily devops experiences, livestreamed.

Decrypt Devops alerts with contextual graphs, runbooks and routing

We redesigned alerting in a way that any alert would make immediate sense to the recipient.

Where is open source monitoring going?

We are proud to sponsor the very first edition of Monitorama, the conference of open source monitoring that ...

Daily Digests - Understand a Day's App Performance in Seconds

Announcing the release of Datadog's new Daily Digest functionality, which allows for you to see a day's app ...

Datadog, now with Windows support

Datadog now supports Windows with the new Windows integrations, including IIS, Event Viewer, and more.

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Learn why real time graphs are crucial when it comes to optimizing your stack performance.

Try the new PagerDuty integration

The new Pagerduty integration from Datadog enables you to receive phone, SMS and email notifications for ...

Understand your Nagios alerts with Datadog

Nagios monitoring doesn't have to be so painful. Learn how you can cut through the alerting noise and show ...

Ask your systems what's going on: monitor Chef with Datadog

Monitor Chef with Datadog to know the end results of Chef runs and how they impact your infrastructure ...