When approaching a new service provider, sometimes it can be confusing on how to get set up to best communicate with them – some processes involve multiple steps, multiple interfaces, confusing terminology,…
Tag: datadog
Counts are good, States are better
Datadog is great at pulling in large amounts of metrics, and provides a web-based platform to explore, find, and monitor a variety of systems. One such system integration is PostgresQL (aka ‘Postgres’,…
Reduce logging volume
Quick self-reminder on reducing logging volume when monitoring an http endpoint with the Datadog Agent HTTP Check. For nginx, add something like: location / { if ($http_user_agent ~* “Datadog Agent/.*”) { access_log…
Tracking application performance on Heroku with Datadog
I thought about using a clickbait title – “You’ll never believe how this guy captures metrics!” – but decided that 99% of these are not worth the time invested in coming up…
Ask your systems: “What’s going on?”
This is a sysadmin/devops-style post. Disclaimers are that I work with these tools and people, and like what they do. In some amount of our professional lives, we are tasked with bringing…