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By Nicholas Thomson
Datadog’s infrastructure comprises hundreds of distributed services, which are constantly discovering other services to network with, exchanging data, streaming events, triggering actions, coordinating distributed transactions involving multiple services, and more. Implementing a networking solution for such a large, complex application comes with its own set of challenges, including scalability, load balancing, fault tolerance, compatibility, and latency.
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By Kaushik Akula
Modern organizations face a challenge in handling the massive volumes of log data—often scaling to terabytes—that they generate across their environments every day. Teams rely on this data to help them identify, diagnose, and resolve issues more quickly, but how and where should they store logs to best suit this purpose? For many organizations, the immediate answer is to consolidate all logs remotely in higher-cost indexed storage to ready them for searching and analysis.
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By Candace Shamieh
The volume of logs generated from modern environments can overwhelm teams, making it difficult to manage, process, and derive measurable value from them. As organizations seek to manage this influx of data with log management systems, SIEM providers, or storage solutions, they can inadvertently become locked into vendor ecosystems, face substantial network costs and processing fees, and run the risk of sensitive data leakage.
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By Kaushik Akula
Organizations often adjust their logging strategy to meet their changing observability needs for use cases such as security, auditing, log management, and long-term storage. This process involves trialing and eventually migrating to new solutions without disrupting existing workflows. However, configuring and maintaining multiple log pipelines can be complex. Enabling new solutions across your infrastructure and migrating everyone to a shared platform requires significant time and engineering effort.
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By Kay Dobesh
Helping our users gain end-to-end visibility into their systems is key to the Datadog platform— to achieve this, we offer over 20 products and more than 700 integrations. However, with an ever-expanding, increasingly diverse catalog, it’s more important than ever that users have clear paths for quickly finding what they need.
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By Ara Pulido
In the last week of March 2024, Datadog hosted its latest Datadog Summit in London to celebrate our community. As Jeremy Garcia, Datadog’s VP of Technical Community and Open Source, mentioned during his welcome remarks, London is the first city that has seen two Datadog Summits, with the first one in 2018. It was great to be able to see how our community there has grown over the past six years.
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By Jordan Obey
Since the release of ChatGPT, there’s been growing excitement about the potential of generative AI—a class of artificial intelligence trained on pre-existing datasets to generate text, images, videos, and other media—to transform global businesses. Last year, we released our own generative AI-powered DevOps copilot called Bits AI in private beta. Bits AI provides a conversational UI to explore observability data using natural language.
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By Nancy Zhu
Datadog Data Streams Monitoring (DSM) provides detailed visibility into your event-driven applications and streaming data pipelines, letting you easily track and improve performance. We’ve covered DSM for Kafka and RabbitMQ users previously on our blog. In this post, we’ll guide you through using DSM to monitor applications built with Amazon Simple Queue Service (SQS).
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By Emily Chang
Google Cloud provides a wide range of services and tools to help engineering teams reduce the complexity of migrating and deploying applications in the cloud. As engineering teams work to improve the performance, reliability, and security of their applications, they also need to be conscious of cloud costs. But engineers often don’t have access to cost data, or they only see cost data in monthly reports.
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By Jordan Obey
Logs provide valuable information that can help you troubleshoot performance issues, track usage patterns, and conduct security audits. To derive actionable insights from log sources and facilitate thorough investigations, Datadog Log Management provides an easy-to-use query editor that enables you to group logs into patterns with a single click or perform reference table lookups on-the-fly for in-depth analysis.
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By Datadog
In 2018 Datadog released Watchdog to proactively detect anomalies on your observability data. But what defines an anomaly? How do you avoid false positives? At Datadog Summit London 2024, Nils Bunge, product manager at Datadog, shared the story of the creation of the first Datadog AI feature (Watchdog Alert), what we learned from it and how we applied those lessons to all the added AI functionalities across the years.
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By Datadog
Monitoring backend signals has been standard practice for years, and tech companies have been alerting their SRE and software engineers when API endpoints are failing. But when you’re alerted about a backend issue, it’s often your end users who are directly affected. Shouldn’t we observe and alert on this user experience issues early on? As frontend monitoring is a newer practice, companies often struggle to identify signals that can help them pinpoint user frustrations or performance problems.
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By Datadog
On This Month in Datadog, we’re covering Datadog Security for Google Cloud, our integration with NVIDIA Triton Inference Server, and Sankey visualizations, which offer overviews of common paths users take across your app.
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By Datadog
There are many different ways to implement Site Reliability Engineering (SRE). From team structures to roles and responsibilities to planning and prioritization flows, there’s no golden path for how to organize things. As Datadog has shifted from a startup to a quickly-growing public company, we’ve seen our own SRE practice evolve. With over 22,000 customers sending trillions of data points each day, keeping Datadog reliable is critical to our business.
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By Datadog
In this episode we'll visit the world of predictive analytics and machine learning and uncover how these cutting-edge technologies are transforming the way Datadog monitors and improves its services. We’ll focus our conversation on two key aspects: using advanced statistical methods for proactive monitoring and the strategic implementation of machine learning for algorithm enhancement.
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By Datadog
Datadog is an observability and security platform that ingests and processes tens of trillions of data points per day, coming from more than 22,000 customers. Processing that amount of data in a reasonable time stretches the limits of well known data engines like Apache Spark. In addition to scale, Datadog infrastructure is multi-cloud on Kubernetes and the data engineering platform is used by different engineering teams, so having a good set of abstractions to make running Spark jobs easier is critical.
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By Datadog
Learn how Complyt is using Datadog Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and distributed tracing to turn data into knowledge and reduce application response times by more than 80%, which enabled them to meet SLAs for their largest customers.
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By Datadog
What’s new at Datadog? An advanced feature to search and filter traces; measuring users who regularly engage with your app over time; and a centralized system for tracking, triaging, and addressing security issues.
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By Datadog
Learn how the team at Complyt was able to integrate Cloud Cost Managament in a matter of hours and quickly pinpoint underutilized services to cut their cloud spend in half. CCM delivers cost data where engineers work and with resource-level context like CPU, memory, and requests — easily scoped to their services and applications — so that they can take action and spend effectively.
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By Datadog
ngrok delivers instant ingress to your applications in any cloud, private network, or devices with authentication, load balancing, and other critical controls using their global points of presence. Hear from Chad Tindel, Field CTO & VP WW Solution Architecture, on why Datadog was their most requested integration and how it provides an easy pathway to ship application and traffic logs into one unified observability platform.
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By Datadog
As Docker adoption continues to rise, many organizations have turned to orchestration platforms like ECS and Kubernetes to manage large numbers of ephemeral containers. Thousands of companies use Datadog to monitor millions of containers, which enables us to identify trends in real-world orchestration usage. We're excited to share 8 key findings of our research.
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By Datadog
The elasticity and nearly infinite scalability of the cloud have transformed IT infrastructure. Modern infrastructure is now made up of constantly changing, often short-lived VMs or containers. This has elevated the need for new methods and new tools for monitoring. In this eBook, we outline an effective framework for monitoring modern infrastructure and applications, however large or dynamic they may be.
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By Datadog
Where does Docker adoption currently stand and how has it changed? With thousands of companies using Datadog to track their infrastructure, we can see software trends emerging in real time. We're excited to share what we can see about true Docker adoption.
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By Datadog
Build an effective framework for monitoring AWS infrastructure and applications, however large or dynamic they may be. The elasticity and nearly infinite scalability of the AWS cloud have transformed IT infrastructure. Modern infrastructure is now made up of constantly changing, often short-lived components. This has elevated the need for new methods and new tools for monitoring.
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By Datadog
Like a car, Elasticsearch was designed to allow you to get up and running quickly, without having to understand all of its inner workings. However, it's only a matter of time before you run into engine trouble here or there. This guide explains how to address five common Elasticsearch challenges.
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By Datadog
Monitoring Kubernetes requires you to rethink your monitoring strategies, especially if you are used to monitoring traditional hosts such as VMs or physical machines. This guide prepares you to effectively approach Kubernetes monitoring in light of its significant operational differences.
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Datadog is the essential monitoring platform for cloud applications. We bring together data from servers, containers, databases, and third-party services to make your stack entirely observable. These capabilities help DevOps teams avoid downtime, resolve performance issues, and ensure customers are getting the best user experience.
See it all in one place:
- See across systems, apps, and services: With turn-key integrations, Datadog seamlessly aggregates metrics and events across the full devops stack.
- Get full visibility into modern applications: Monitor, troubleshoot, and optimize application performance.
- Analyze and explore log data in context: Quickly search, filter, and analyze your logs for troubleshooting and open-ended exploration of your data.
- Build real-time interactive dashboards: More than summary dashboards, Datadog offers all high-resolution metrics and events for manipulation and graphing.
- Get alerted on critical issues: Datadog notifies you of performance problems, whether they affect a single host or a massive cluster.
Modern monitoring & analytics. See inside any stack, any app, at any scale, anywhere.