Beyond APM: What Datadog Won't Tell You with Leon Adato of Kentik
APM tools promise a unified observability platform, yet they inherently focus on internal metrics, traces, and logs. This internal focus, while valuable, misses critical dimensions of the user experience and network performance that are essential for a complete understanding of application behavior in real-world scenarios.
With Kentik you can dive deep into your network performance and find problems before they affect your users.
With Checkly you can test your site continually to see if everything's really functioning as expected.
Try Checkly today: https://www.checklyhq.com/docs/
Try Kentik: https://www.kentik.com/get-demo/
Follow Leon's blog at: https://www.adatosystems.com/
Chapters:
00:00 Intro
03:00 How do you know the site is down?
06:41 User-reported Outages
10:31 The Single 'pain' of Glass
13:00 Network Monitoring
19:10 Kentik Demo
29:00 Slow is the new Down
31:00 The Best Way To Improve Observability