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Today we’re pleased to announce that we’ve added Windows Service checks to Datadog, available in Datadog Agent 5.2. Services are a core component of Windows and are responsible for spawning processes required for the OS and third-party applications to operate. By configuring checks for your Windows Services you’ll have full visibility into their availability status […]

We recently launched Datadog’s integration with SNS, Amazon’s push messaging service. This integration: Lets Datadog send and receive SNS notifications Allows you to correlate SNS messages with metrics being gathered by Datadog Provides a preconfigured dashboard to give you a high-level overview of your Amazon SNS environment Send notifications through SNS With this new integration you […]

If you use Dyn to manage and optimize your DNS delivery, read on. DNS is a critical yet oft-overlooked piece of the performance puzzle so we’re happy to announce a new integration with Dyn. With it, you can visualize and monitor DNS traffic to your zones to get the full picture. You can also track individual zone […]

We at Datadog have been long time users of Mortar Data’s platform. As a fellow NYC-based enterprise startup, we have watched in awe as Mortar built up its award-winning platform to power scalable data pipelines, recommendation enginesor predictive analytics, while using open-source technologies ranging from pig/hadoop to luigi or spark. Today, we’re very pleased to announce that all of the Mortar team and technology […]

Datadog Inc., a rising star in the burgeoning cloud monitoring space, has bought out a fellow New York analytics startup to provide a broader view of infrastructure and applications. No financial terms were disclosed, but it’s safe to assume a substantial part of the capital for the purchase came from the $31 million funding round Datadog […]

Here at Datadog, we have created myriad integrations with your favorite applications. We also provide ways to instrument your own custom apps using various DogStatsD libraries as well as the RESTful API. For those of you writing your apps in Go, the Datadog Agent 5.1.0 introduces the ability to use expvar as well. Expvar is a Go package which […]

We’re happy to announce that Datadog now integrates with Salesforce Desk. With this integration, you can view trends in and set alerts on support case data as well as access new cases from events in the Events Stream. In addition, your support team can see its case metrics alongside operational metrics. This added visibility can help […]

Looking to expand its ranks and deepen the development of its technology, Datadog, based in New York, raised $31 million in a Series C funding round led by Index Ventures, with RTP Ventures, OpenView Partners, and others participating. Datadog is a monitoring service used by IT teams and developers who work with cloud-based software. CEO […]

As containers grow in importance, Linux distributions focused on container performance and management also are becoming mainstream. One of the most prevalent of these distributions is CoreOS. But how are real businesses using containers and CoreOS, and how are they monitoring container performance. After attending this webinar, you will have a better understanding of: What […]

As containers grow in importance, Linux distributions focused on container performance and management also are becoming mainstream. One of the most prevalent of these distributions is CoreOS. But how are real businesses using containers and CoreOS, and how are they monitoring container performance. After attending this webinar, you will have a better understanding of: What […]

A year ago, I had a serious problem. I was the Director of Engineering at an eCommerce company running a Ruby on Rails website. Our Rails app was quite stable except for one part: our background worker processes kept increasing in memory over the course of a day from 300MB up to many gigabytes. Eventually […]

With the release of the Datadog Agent 5.1.0, we have introduced new options for tagging metrics collected by the JMX integration. In addition to automatically tagging metrics by their JMX object name, we now support assigning custom tags to each metric. The benefit here is that you are no longer limited to the tags assigned by the […]

At nonfiction, we hosted the sites we built using a number of different hosting providers. The vast majority of the sites are hosted on some Rackspace Cloud instances – they have been very reliable for our workloads. One of those servers had been acting up recently and had been becoming unresponsive for no obvious reason, so […]

We’ve just released a major extension to Datadog monitors in the Datadog Agent 5.1.0 called Availability Monitoring. Availability Monitoring introduces five new kinds of monitors on top of our existing metric-based ones: Host monitors Integration monitors Network monitors Process monitors Custom monitors  Metric-based monitors let you monitor apps and services in a sophisticated way. However, sometimes […]