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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Learn how to monitor MySQL server status variables for high-level summary metrics, plus access the performance schema and sys schema for a granular view

A guide to the key metrics for MySQL and its default storage engine, InnoDB. Learn to track latency, throughput, connections, and buffer pool utilization.

For total visibility into your database’s health and performance, you need a monitoring system that collects key MySQL metrics for graphing and alerting.

Monitoring Kafka's key performance metrics can help you keep your cluster running smoothly at high throughput. Read about the most important metrics...

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

In this series of posts we dive into monitoring OpenStack Nova, the OpenStack Compute module, and explain its key metrics and other useful data points.

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

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

Learn to monitor Cassandra performance metrics including request throughput, latency, disk usage, and more for the Apache Cassandra NoSQL data store

Learn how monitoring Amazon Aurora, Amazon's MySQL-compatible database, can help your infrastructure performance. Track key metrics on query throughput, latency, resource utilization, and more.

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

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

Users have access to hundreds of RDS MySQL performance metrics, but it's not easy to tell what you should focus on. In this article we'll highlight key metrics in several areas of database performance

ELB performance is critical to any scalable infrastructure as the first gateway between users and your application. Learn to monitor key ELB performance metrics,

In order to correctly provision your DynamoDB machines, and to keep them running smoothly, it is important to understand and track key DynamoDB performance metrics.

Redis is a popular in-memory key/value data store. Known for its performance and simple onboarding, Redis has found uses across industries and use cases. Monitoring Redis can help catch problems in two areas: resource issues with Redis itself, and problems arising elsewhere in your supporting infrastructure. In this article we go though the most important Redis metrics.

If you are using Kinesis in production, you probably want to know right away if there are any slowdowns or other Amazon Kinesis performance issues that might affect your users.

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

Monitoring Varnish, part 1 of 3. This post introduces the key Varnish performance metrics you can monitor to detect issues in your cache.

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

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

Datadog joins Docker's Ecosystem Technology Partner program

Learn how to visualize and analyze your Azure metrics. With Datadog, your application and infrastructure monitoring will be convenient, reliable, and stress-free.

Learn now to create a complete, unified view of system activity and performance that encompasses mobile, desktop, and server with mParticle and Datadog.

Monitor Riak CS performance metrics, assesses the availability of each Riak CS host in your cluster and sends alerts if any are unreachable.

In this video, Software Engineer and Gopher, Jason Moiron describes various optimization techniques Datadog has explored in the past year of using Go in production.

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

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

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

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

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

TokuMX metrics monitoring, analysis, alerting, and reporting that gives you immediate, actionable insights into your application's performance. Free trial.

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

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

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

Datadog's Splunk integration allows you to collaborate and visualize Splunk events in the context of your performance metrics for quick issue resolution.

You now have the ability to monitor Fastly performance metrics and correlate them with your other sources of data in Datadog. Free 14 day trial.

Keep your team up-to-date on performance issues, share graphs & send alerts & events to Slack chat rooms with Datadog's Slack integration. Free trial.

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

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

Learn how to monitor Couchbase metrics to measure its performance alongside application metrics and identify and resolve performance and availability issues in our products.

Don't get bogged down when trying to access and understand your JMX metrics in order to improve Java performance. Learn how to easily graph, alert and analyze these data with Datadog.

Failures are a fact of life. AWS failure just gets more publicity. Instead let's focus on t he more interesting question: What can we learn from these failures?

Datadog's new Triggered Alert screen works to make available important contextual information with one click by showing you all your triggered alerts.

CPU steal is a fundamental property of virtual environments, but may lead to inconsistent performance for the user. Learn how to detect when CPU steal is happening in your AWS instance.

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

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

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

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