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Datadog is the monitoring, security and analytics platform for developers, IT operations teams, security engineers and business users in the cloud age. Our SaaS platform integrates and automates infrastructure monitoring, application performance monitoring and log management to provide unified, real-time observability of our customers’ entire technology stack. Datadog is used by organizations of all sizes and across a wide range of industries to enable digital transformation and cloud migration, drive collaboration among development, operations, security and business teams, accelerate time to market for applications, reduce time to problem resolution, secure applications and infrastructure, understand user behavior and track key business metrics.
For more information, visit datadoghq.com.
Tier 1 Sponsors
Datadog is the monitoring, security and analytics platform for developers, IT operations teams, security engineers and business users in the cloud age. Our SaaS platform integrates and automates infrastructure monitoring, application performance monitoring and log management to provide unified, real-time observability of our customers’ entire technology stack. Datadog is used by organizations of all sizes and across a wide range of industries to enable digital transformation and cloud migration, drive collaboration among development, operations, security and business teams, accelerate time to market for applications, reduce time to problem resolution, secure applications and infrastructure, understand user behavior and track key business metrics.
For more information, visit datadoghq.com.
Lumigo is a serverless monitoring and debugging platform. Our goal is to save developers time by shortening the cycle from issue discovery to fix. We do this with our deep distributed tracing of all AWS managed services, and by correlating the relevant data so you don’t have to go around chasing for it with tedious and repetitive manual work. And everything is searchable in a super-intuitive way.
For more information, visit lumigo.io.
ManageEngine is an innovative producer of Enterprise IT Management Software, offering high-end functionality of large network management frameworks at cost-effective prices to enterprises worldwide. With more than 45,000 Customers Worldwide, including 3 out of every 5 Fortune 500 companies, ManageEngine is the fastest-growing alternative to traditional network management frameworks.
For more information, visit manageengine.com.
Site24x7 is a full-stack performance monitoring solutions company. It offers cloud monitoring for DevOps and IT operations with monitoring capabilities extending to analyzing the experience of real users accessing websites and applications from desktop and mobile devices. The company assists DevOps teams to monitor and troubleshoot applications, servers, and network infrastructure, including private and public clouds.
For more information, visit site24x7.com.
Teleport allows engineers and security professionals to unify access for SSH servers, Kubernetes clusters, web applications, and databases across all environments.
For more information, visit goteleport.com.
Tier 2 Sponsors
Quickly gain a complete view over all your assets, no matter how complex your IT infrastructure is. Checkmk provides powerful monitoring of networks, servers, clouds, containers, and applications. Fast. Effective. It is available in two versions: 1) Checkmk Raw Edition, which is completely open-source and offers free & unlimited monitoring. 2) Checkmk Enterprise Edition, which comes with additional features such as the Checkmk Microcore, powerful dashboards, further automation and integrations, and support.
For more information, visit www.checkmk.com
Datadog is the monitoring, security and analytics platform for developers, IT operations teams, security engineers and business users in the cloud age. Our SaaS platform integrates and automates infrastructure monitoring, application performance monitoring and log management to provide unified, real-time observability of our customers’ entire technology stack. Datadog is used by organizations of all sizes and across a wide range of industries to enable digital transformation and cloud migration, drive collaboration among development, operations, security and business teams, accelerate time to market for applications, reduce time to problem resolution, secure applications and infrastructure, understand user behavior and track key business metrics.
For more information, visit datadoghq.com.
Obkio is a network performance monitoring and diagnostic solution designed to help IT professionals monitor their network infrastructure and quickly identify and resolve network issues. It provides real-time visibility into network performance and uses a combination of active and passive monitoring techniques to identify network problems. Obkio’s monitoring capabilities include bandwidth monitoring, network device monitoring, network flow monitoring, VoIP monitoring, and more. The platform also provides an API that enables integration with other monitoring and alerting tools, allowing for a more comprehensive network management strategy.
For more information, visit obkio.com.
Designed for hybrid and cloud-native IT environments, the SolarWinds® APM Suite—Pingdom®, AppOptics™, Loggly®, and Papertrail™—come together to help identify performance anomalies, understand dependencies, trace requests, and pinpoint the root cause. These products can be used individually or as an integrated suite to deliver full-stack performance monitoring across user experience, applications, services, and infrastructure.
For more information, visit https://www.solarwinds.com/apmsuite.
Teleport allows engineers and security professionals to unify access for SSH servers, Kubernetes clusters, web applications, and databases across all environments.
For more information, visit goteleport.com.
Service Sponsors
bunny.net helps minimize latency and increases resiliency with a network powered by strictly Tier 1 transit providers and direct access to over 3000+ ISPs. Their network consists of 102 smartly placed global PoPs that ensure sub 28 ms AVERAGE latency to anywhere in the world. bunny.net’s constantly expanding network is present on 6 continents and in over 70 countries. When hoping with bunny.net, you can take advantage of their free-of-charge SSL, Brotli, HTTP/2, API, video transcoding, and encoding on top of next-gen DDoS protection and CDN security.
For more information, visit bunny.net.
Monitor applications, infrastructure, and servers in one platform. Out-of-the-box dashboards. Metrics. Analytics. Starting at $7.50/month. Free 14-day trial.
For more information, visit appoptics.com.
Enterprise-class log management service, serving more than 10,000 customers, including one-third of the Fortune 500. The Loggly service integrates into the engineering processes of teams employing continuous deployment and DevOps practices to reduce MTTR, improve service quality, accelerate innovation, and make better use of valuable development resources. We offer an alternative to traditional, search-based log analysis by structuring and summarizing your log data before you ask it to. With Loggly, your logs reveal what matters through real-time metrics and dashboards.
For more information, visit loggly.com.
Pingdom is a website and performance monitoring company dedicated to making the web faster and more reliable. With Pingdom’s monitoring service, users will be the first to know any issues with their website, DNS, email server, or any other infrastructure they choose to monitor. With Pingdom’s service, customers are alerted of any issues to focus on their daily business. The platform allows customers to easily and quickly set up monitoring without all the technical work normally involved. All that is needed is a URL; Pingdom will take care of the rest.
For more information, visit pingdom.com.
“Highest performance SSD based Linux hosting custom-configured for speed, or your money back! If you appreciate custom-made, you’ll love StackLinux. In an industry where everything has become automated and mass-produced, we aim to keep that small-shop personal touch. You are not just an account number, and your new VPS won’t launch in a few seconds. Instead, we offer hand-tuned and fully managed VPS servers to match your workload and traffic.” — Principle Managing Partner – Hayden James.
For more information, visit stacklinux.com.
Uptime Robot is a free uptime monitoring service that provides HTTP, keyword, ping, and port checks. It can notify users about downtime via e-mail, SMS, push notifications, Slack or HipChat messages, and much more.
For more information, visit uptimerobot.com.
Early sponsors
The AppDynamics platform gives today’s software-defined businesses the ability to analyze and optimize digital business performance in real-time. AppDynamics is led by a senior team of innovators with deep experience in application performance management, systems management and distributed systems. AppDynamics was acquired by Cisco.
For more information, visit AppDynamics.com.
CA together with its subsidiaries, engages in the design, development, marketing, licensing, and support of information technology (IT) management software products that operate on a range of hardware platforms and operating systems. The company has a portfolio of software products and services that address its customers’ needs for mainframe and distributed environments, spanning IT governance, IT management, and IT security. CA Technologies was acquired by Broadcom.
For more information, visit ca.com.
Instrumental is a hosted application and server monitoring platform. It provides real-time metric collection and graphing combined with an incredible interface and a powerful query language. Feature-rich, never-blocking agents are available for .Net, Java, Node.js, PHP, Python, and Ruby. Out-of-the-box service monitoring includes MySQL, Postgres, MongoDB, Redis, Memcached, Nginx, and more.
For more information, visit Instrumentalapp.com.
Panopta provides an advanced server and network monitoring service and outage management system for online businesses and service providers that go beyond basic monitoring to give operations teams the tools they need to minimize the impact of outages to their online business. The service is fully hosted on Panopta’s distributed monitoring infrastructure and requires no software or hardware installation, and with automatic configuration tools, customers can be up monitoring their entire network in minutes. Panopta was acquired by Fortinet.
For more information, visit Panopta.com.
Server Density is a SaaS-based product that helps users manage and monitor their infrastructure. The tool syncs with major cloud providers and allows users to monitor their websites and servers from a single console, API, and mobile app; enabling them to diagnose problems, maintain uptime, and maximize performance. Server Density is available on Linux, Windows, OS X, and FreeBSD servers. Server Density was acquired by Stackpath.
For more information, visit serverdensity.com.
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