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Datadog vs Prometheus: Choosing the Right Monitoring Tool for You

Oracle Dynamic Monitoring Service Datadog Prometheus

This story offers a comprehensive comparison of Datadog vs Prometheus, two popular monitoring and observability tools. It explores key factors like data collection, metrics & instrumentation, visualization & alerting, ecosystem & integrations, and pricing to assist you in selecting the tool that best suits your needs.

Key takeaways:

Prometheus is open-source and leverages a pull-based model for data collection, while Datadog offers a subscription-based service with both pull and push-based models.

Both tools excel in metrics and instrumentation, with Prometheus featuring PromQL for queries and Datadog providing out-of-the-box integrations and agent collection.

Datadog outshines in visualization and alerting with its customizable dashboards and advanced features, whereas Prometheus offers a user-friendly web interface for metric visualization.

Prometheus boasts a large open-source community with extensive integrations, while Datadog provides pre-built integrations with over 600 tools and technologies.

Ultimately, the ideal choice depends on your specific requirements, budget, and existing technology stack.

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Zabbix vs Prometheus: Choosing the Right Monitoring Tool for Your Needs

Oracle Dynamic Monitoring Service Prometheus Zabbix

This blog post compares two popular monitoring tools, Zabbix vs Prometheus. It highlights the key differences between these tools in terms of their monitoring capabilities, scalability, ease of use, community support, and pricing.

Here's a quick summary:

Prometheus: excels in collecting time-series metrics, easy to configure, strong community support, ideal for DevOps teams.

Zabbix: offers broader monitoring including logs, scales well for large setups, mature ecosystem, preferred by IT administrators.

Ultimately, the choice depends on your specific needs and preferences.

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Distributed SQLite: Paradigm shift or hype?

SQLite is a fast embedded database designed for client-side applications. Projects like Cloudflare D1, fly.io, and Turso are trying to use SQLite as an edge database, but they face challenges with eventual consistency and lack of support for interactive transactions. Using HTTP caching may be a simp.. read more  

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Redis is forked

Redis has played a significant role in many developers' work on high-scale, low-latency web services for the past fifteen years. It is a reliable and efficient tool that empowers developers and handles high throughput with low latency, making it a go-to choice in the industry. The recent licensing c.. read more  

Redis is forked
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The Scary Thing About Automating Deploys

Most of Slack runs on a monolithic service called "The Webapp" with hundreds of developers making hundreds of changes weekly. Deploying at this scale poses a unique challenge, especially in implementing continuous deployment. Slack deploys from its Webapp repository 30-40 times a day to its producti.. read more  

The Scary Thing About Automating Deploys
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Transitioning to OpenTelemetry

In this guest blog, Einar Norðfjörð walks through Birdie's journey moving from logs to OpenTelemetry and Honeycomb's tracing... read more  

Transitioning to OpenTelemetry
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Kubernetes v1.30: Uwubernetes

Kubernetes v1.30 introduces new stable, beta, and alpha features with 45 enhancements, including 17 stable, 18 in beta, and 10 in alpha. The release theme and logo for Kubernetes v1.30 is Uwubernetes. Some of the improvements that graduated to stable include volume manager refactoring, pod schedulin.. read more  

Kubernetes v1.30: Uwubernetes
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We discovered an AWS access vulnerability

AWS IAM was used extensively by Stedi to enforce role-based access control for customers. A vulnerability was discovered in AWS STS where role trust policy statements were evaluated incorrectly, allowing unauthorized access to AWS accounts. Stedi shared their discovery process and collaboration with.. read more  

We discovered an AWS access vulnerability
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State of DevSecOps

An analysis of security posture across a range of applications written in various programming languages found that Java services are disproportionately affected by vulnerabilities, with a high percentage of services vulnerable to critical, high-severity issues introduced by third-party libraries. Vu.. read more  

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How to Build a Data Center in 5 Steps

Establishing internal network infrastructure: Configuring a robust internal network infrastructure is key to efficient data center operations. This involves setting up switches, routers, and firewalls to manage data flow and protect against intrusions. Redundancy is critical for ensuring high availa.. read more  

How to Build a Data Center in 5 Steps

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