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Why it's time to move beyond APM: Monitoring from the user's perspective

For years, organizations have relied on Application Performance Monitoring (APM) as the backbone of their observability strategy. The idea was simple: collect as many logs, metrics, and traces as possible, then sift through the data to uncover insights. But as applications have shifted to the cloud and become increasingly API-driven, that model has broken down.

Interactive Dashboards - Click Any Panel to Start Debugging

Your dashboard shows a latency spike. To investigate it, you copy the query, open logs in a new tab, paste and modify the query, lose your dashboard filters, and repeat for traces. By the time you find the issue, you have 15 tabs open. Starting today, you can click any panel and investigate right there. All your filters and variables carry over. No more tab juggling.

Interactive Dashboards | SigNoz Launch Week 5.0 | Day 1

Interactive Dashboards eliminate the current workflow of opening new tabs and manually recreating queries every time you need to investigate a spike or anomaly. Click directly on any data point to drill down and explore. ​What you can do: ​Built for developers who need to debug production issues efficiently, not juggle with multiple tabs.

Monitoring Claude Code Usage with OpenTelemetry and SigNoz

In this video, we’ll walk you through how to monitor Claude code activity using OpenTelemetry and SigNoz. You’ll learn how to instrument your usage, capture telemetry data, and visualize it with SigNoz to get better insights into your system performance. Whether you’re exploring observability for AI workloads or looking for an open-source solution to monitor your llm activity, this guide will help you get started.

Full Session Simulation - Simulate Anything, Everything, Anywhere

Full Session Simulation is a powerful troubleshooting strategy. Have you ever been in a situation where everything on your dashboards looks green, but users are still encountering issues and raising support tickets?The cliche of “everything is fine on our side” moment is not just frustrating for everyone. It’s risky! Because when you can’t replicate what the user is experiencing, you’re flying blind.

Cost Controls and so Much More: Issue Detection Through Usage Analysis

Keeping tabs on cloud spending across multiple organizations and vendors, including Datadog, can be tough and costly. If you're not tracking expenses, you're also missing other critical insights. The Flight Centre Travel Group (FCTG) faced this when moving to Datadog, needing to monitor costs across numerous organizations and over 180 Azure subscriptions. After a rapid migration, new cost reports quickly revealed more than just financial benefits. Unusual spending patterns often highlighted incidents, bugs, or security issues, offering early warnings about internal system problems.

Bridging the Gap: Legacy Systems and Modern Observability

Technology moves quickly and while the spotlight has shifted to dynamic, cloud-based systems, many organizations have legacy applications and infrastructure that they must maintain. In this fireside chat, Datadog’s Matt Moore (Principal Observability Strategist) will host James Flores (Enterprise Systems Engineer) at Australian Community Media to discuss their journey of modernization and bridging legacy systems with the cloud using a bit of ingenuity and observability.

Bringing Observability to Claude Code: OpenTelemetry in Action

AI coding assistants like Claude Code are becoming core parts of modern development workflows. But as with any powerful tool, the question quickly arises: how do we measure and monitor its usage? Without proper visibility, it’s hard to understand adoption, performance, and the real value Claude brings to engineering teams. For leaders and platform engineers, that lack of observability can mean flying blind when it comes to understanding ROI, productivity gains, or system reliability.