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Burn rate is a better error rate

Read here to demystify burn rates and how calculating them can be more effective than simple error rates.

Manage your monitors more efficiently with Datadog Teams

See how Datadog brings together all of your alerts by team for effective monitor management and best ...

Too many alert notifications? Learn how to combat alert storms

Learn how alert storms arise in microservices architectures and the steps you can take to mitigate them.

Alert fatigue: What it is and how to prevent it

Learn about alert fatigue, its associated risks, and how to take action to prevent it.

Monitor expiration events from Azure Key Vault

Azure Key Vault monitoring events identify any expiring credentials in your key vault, ensuring that you ...

Enable preconfigured alerts with Recommended Monitors for AWS

Learn how to quickly start monitoring AWS resources at scale with preconfigured alerts for AWS.

Enable preconfigured alerts with Recommended Monitors for Azure

Learn how to quickly start monitoring Azure resources at scale with preconfigured alerts for Azure.

Use Datadog monitors as quality gates for GitHub Actions deployments

With Datadog's integration for GitHub Deployment Protection Rules, you can ensure your deployments are ...

Monitor Snowflake with Datadog

Learn how to use Datadog to monitor and optimize your Snowflake usage.

Automate incident response workflows with Eventarc and Datadog

Learn how Datadog’s Eventarc integration enables you to trigger choreographed workflows in response to Datadog ...

Proactively monitor service performance with SLO alerts

Track the performance of your services against your SLOs with SLO alerting.

Use formulas and functions in RUM monitors for high-value alerts

Formulas and functions let you alert on RUM data that answers complex questions.

Automatically create and manage Kubernetes alerts with Datadog

Learn how to use Datadog's custom resource definitions to automatically create, manage, and deploy alerts for ...

How to monitor vSphere with Datadog

Use Datadog to visualize and alert on every layer of your vSphere infrastructure.

Streamline communication workflows with the Datadog Slack integration

Learn how to keep teams up to speed with minimal context switching by harnessing your telemetry data and ...

Enable preconfigured alerts with Recommended Monitors

Add preconfigured alert queries and thresholds to your monitoring workflow with Recommended Monitors.

Best practices for tagging your monitors

Learn how to use tags to organize your monitors and streamline alerting-related workflows in Datadog.

Integrate Alibaba's DingTalk with Datadog for faster troubleshooting

Send Datadog alerts and widgets to DingTalk to collaborate and troubleshoot quickly with your team.

Automate workflows with Datadog's Amazon EventBridge integration

Connect EventBridge to your Datadog alert notifications to auto-remediate issues and more.

Canary releases with Azure Deployment Manager and Datadog

Use Datadog monitors to track the health of your Azure Deployment Manager canary releases.

Rethinking UX for AI-driven alerting

The introduction of advanced statistical methods is reshaping the UX of alerts

How PagerDuty deploys safely with Datadog

Learn how PagerDuty improved their deployment process by integrating automated metric checks.

Introducing metric forecasts for predictive monitoring in Datadog

Forecasts predict your metrics' future behavior, so you can specify how far in advance you want to get ...

Introducing recovery thresholds for metric alerts

Clarify your alerts by specifying how much a metric’s value should improve before an issue is resolved.

3 scenarios where machine learning makes for smarter alerts

Watch these videos to learn how your apps and infrastructure can benefit from automated, algorithmic ...

Alerting 101: Status checks

Learn how to use status checks on hosts, services, processes, and network endpoints to generate actionable ...

Alerting 101: Timeseries metric checks

Learn how metric checks can help you monitor the health and performance of your infrastructure and ...

Improving cloud security visibility with ChatOps

Highlights of our recent work to improve our cloud-based monitoring and alerting pipeline.

Resolve incidents faster with Datadog’s new Triggered Monitors page

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

New feature roundup: Alerting

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

Introducing service-level alerts in Datadog APM

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

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

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

How to monitor Apache web server with Datadog

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

Introducing composite monitors

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

Introducing anomaly detection in Datadog

Anomaly detection analyzes recent metric patterns to identify abnormalities.

Upgrade your issue tracking with JIRA and Datadog

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

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 third-party service statuses from Statuspage

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

Resolve performance issues faster with Flowdock and Datadog

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

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 ...

Tiered alerts: Urgency-aware alerting

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

AWS outage? Datadog alerts you to changes in AWS status

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

Event alerts: another way to trigger notifications

Learn how you can be alerted when a specific event occurs with Datadog's new event alerts.

Top ELB health and performance metrics

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

Introducing outlier detection in Datadog

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

Top DynamoDB performance metrics

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

Top Varnish performance metrics

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

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

The monitor status page allows you to quickly pinpoint performance issues as soon as you're alerted to a ...

Monitoring 101: Alerting on what matters

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

Introducing cluster-level service monitoring

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

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 ...

Create ServiceNow tickets from Datadog alerts

Learn how to create ServiceNow tickets from Datadog alerts and remediate tickets faster with bidirectional ...

Mute Datadog alerts for planned downtime

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

Introducing availability monitoring for Windows Services

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

Introducing Availability Monitoring

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

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 webhooks and Twilio

Use Datadog's webhooks integration to automatically send SMS messages via Twilio.

End-to-end reliability testing with PagerDuty & Datadog

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

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" ...

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 ...

Monitor alerts and events with OpsGenie and Datadog

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

Triggered Alerts in Datadog - providing context to alerts

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

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

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

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.

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 ...

Try the new PagerDuty integration

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

Configure pipeline alerts with Datadog CI monitors

Learn how to get notified immediately when a pipeline breaks using Datadog CI Monitors.

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