This blog post explains how to integrate Prometheus, a metric collection tool, with Datadog, a monitoring platform. This integration offers several benefits including improved visibility into application and infrastructure performance, proactive alerting, and a streamlined workflow.

The guide provides step-by-step instructions on setting up the integration, including installing and configuring both Prometheus and the Datadog Agent, enabling the Prometheus integration within Datadog, and verifying successful data flow. It also highlights additional considerations like metric mapping, scalability, and security.

Overall, integrating Prometheus with Datadog empowers you to create a powerful monitoring ecosystem for making data-driven decisions and optimizing your IT infrastructure.

Reliability is not something we can just build in one place. We need to make sure all parts of the ecosystem work together to guarantee reliability everywhere. One unstable component can take down the whole system. And there is no more important component than the database. The domain model and the storage affect the whole system heavily as it affects every single operation in your application. A good product starts with a good database.

This blog post equips businesses with the knowledge to effectively manage IT incidents. It emphasizes the importance of IT incident management in maintaining smooth operations, customer satisfaction, and overall business continuity.

The guide dives into the challenges organizations face, including the complexities of modern IT systems, the rapid pace of technological advancements, and the need to be proactive. To overcome these hurdles, the blog outlines best practices that stress clear communication, designated ownership of incidents, and leveraging data for continuous improvement.

It explores the valuable role DevOps and SRE teams play in fostering collaboration and a culture of continuous improvement within IT incident management. The power of technology is acknowledged, but the blog emphasizes that successful implementation hinges on user adoption and ongoing adaptation to the evolving IT landscape.

This blog post details how FinBox, a B2B credit infrastructure company, overcame real-time monitoring challenges using Squadcast, an incident management solution. FinBox previously struggled with inefficient email alerts, manual monitoring, and a disorganized on-call process. Squadcast's features like tagging, integration with monitoring tools, and on-call scheduling helped FinBox achieve significant improvements, including reduced downtime, better customer experience, and more control over monitoring. Overall, Squadcast is presented as a valuable tool for businesses seeking to improve their incident management and real-time monitoring capabilities.

This blog post talks about the importance of root cause analysis (RCA) in incident response and how using incident response tools can improve the RCA process. It explains the benefits of using RCA tools such as saving time, improved accuracy, faster resolution, and actionable insights. It contrasts traditional RCAs with RCA conducted with incident response tools, highlighting the limitations of traditional RCAs. The blog post then concludes by discussing the future of RCA with machine learning and AI and how incident response tools can help you improve your team's ability to identify and resolve incidents. Finally, it introduces Squadcast, an incident response tool that offers features to improve RCA.