Before completing your migration, review the following checklist to ensure a smooth transition. 💡Checkout our complete article if something is unclear. ✅ Plan & Preparation: * Define the migration timeline and key milestones. * Identify all assets (dashboards, monitors, users, logs, integrations) that need migration. * Determine whether the migration is to a new
Log parsing in Datadog is both an art and a science. Whether you’re just getting started or refining pipelines at scale, crafting robust parsing rules is critical to ensure logs are structured, searchable, and actionable. This cheatsheet provides a practical, battle-tested guide for building parsing logic—from foundational principles
Observability, like any other discipline, varies in implementation quality and maturity. This guide outlines key success criteria at each stage of the journey—from Pro to Legend to Icon. As a bonus, a scoring app link is provided at the end to assess your current maturity level. 📈 What Does It
Using Vercel and looking for a powerful solution to monitor your app’s performance and reliability? This guide walks you through advanced observability using Datadog, going beyond the default integration to ensure your app stays optimized and running smoothly. Basic Setup To begin, set up the log drain to send
Have you ever wished you could welcome each new hire with a personalized video? Or send hundreds of tailored messages to prospects or job candidates—without spending hours editing? Or maybe create a new video for a job posting to enrich every offers on your website? Video personalization is one
What Are Synthetic Tests and Why Do They Matter? Synthetic monitoring is a proactive testing method that simulates user interactions with your website or APIs. These tests help you consistently assess key user experience (UX) elements and are frequently used to define and track Service Level Objectives (SLOs) and Key
Creating effective videos involves more than choosing a good script or adding attractive animations. It's about clearly guiding your viewers through a carefully structured visual journey. This article explains essential design principles for video creation, focusing on visual hierarchy, sequencing, and engaging your audience. Whether you're
Welcome to the Datadog Mastery series—a collection of hands-on tutorials designed to guide you from your first Agent installation to advanced monitoring strategies. Whether you’re new to Datadog or looking to deepen your expertise, these videos and blog posts will give you practical knowledge and pro tips to
Kubernetes is a powerful tool that delivers incredible benefits, including improved reliability, scalability, and significant cost savings. However, despite its widespread adoption—often through managed services—many users fail to fully grasp the responsibility it places on them. While reliability is always top of mind, achieving it in a cost-effective
Let’s start with the basics—what exactly is OpenMetrics? Think of it as the Esperanto of monitoring data: a standardized, plain-text way of exposing metrics so that tools like Datadog can speak the same language across the board. It’s readable by humans and parsable by machines, supporting everything
As personalized video becomes more critical in marketing, support, and internal comms, scaling content efficiently is a game-changer. With Synthesia’s API, you can automate the creation of hundreds (or thousands) of videos with dynamic elements — such as personalized text or variable images and videos — all within your existing workflows.
You’ve spent time learning how to configure great monitors in Datadog—from tagging correctly to reducing alert fatigue. But how do you know if your team is consistently applying those best practices? Today, we’re launching a free Monitor Analyzer that does exactly that. It instantly checks your Datadog
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Creating a compelling video is an exciting yet complex endeavor. From ideation to scripting, visual planning, and final editing, each stage demands creativity, structure, and attention to detail. Many creators find themselves overwhelmed by the blank page, unsure how to organize their ideas, keep their audience engaged, or effectively deliver
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In the fast-paced world of digital media, creating high-quality video content has become increasingly vital. Yet, many enterprises overlook a critical factor—effective distribution and discoverability. Although platforms like YouTube, Instagram, and TikTok have revolutionized content dissemination for public use, very few solutions are providing a integrated approach to enterprise
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Reliable systems start with effective monitoring—but without careful configuration, monitors can easily generate noise instead of insights. As infrastructure scales, it's crucial that alerts distinguish real problems from transient issues. In this guide, we’ll walk through best practices for configuring Datadog monitors that prioritize meaningful signals
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Keeping API keys, passwords, and other credentials out of plaintext configuration is essential for security. The Datadog Agent provides a secrets management mechanism to handle sensitive data both in standalone installations and in Kubernetes environments. In this deep dive, we’ll explore how Datadog Agent’s secret handling works, best
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Migrating a Datadog organization is a complex but necessary process when consolidating accounts, restructuring teams, or implementing new security and compliance strategies. This guide walks you through the key aspects of Datadog org migration, covering asset migration, challenges with telemetry history, strategies for sharing metrics, forwarding logs, and best practices
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AWS is a leading cloud provider, and one of its key offerings is its serverless computing stack, which allows users to deploy applications without worrying about maintenance. Serverless is particularly cost-efficient for low-scale projects, making it an attractive choice for many businesses. Datadog provides deep integration with AWS serverless technologies,
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To achieve a comprehensive monitoring setup for your infrastructure, it’s essential to integrate cloud provider data into Datadog. Datadog supports integrations with major cloud providers, allowing you to streamline monitoring, optimize costs, and ensure a unified view of your system’s health. This guide will take you through the
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Why Data Correlation Matters in Crisis Management In times of crisis, your ability to quickly connect the dots between various data points can be the difference between identifying a root cause swiftly or getting lost in an overwhelming sea of metrics. When investigating an incident, such as a CPU spike,
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For large enterprises starting their journey with Datadog, a fundamental question often emerges: How should you structure your monitoring solution? Specifically, should you organize everything into a single organization or adopt a multi-organization approach? This decision is not merely technical—it can have far-reaching implications for observability, governance, cost allocation,
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In today’s cloud-native environments, observability is crucial. Services like Datadog give us the power to monitor and analyze a wide array of metrics, ensuring that we’re always on top of our systems' performance. However, as with any powerful tool, there's a cost. And for Datadog
Ensuring your software remains up-to-date is essential to avoid creating legacy systems and to leverage the most recent features and…
Metrics serve as a cornerstone of observability, providing invaluable insights into the performance and health of systems, applications…