Presented by Homin Lee at Dash

With anomaly detection, outlier detection, forecasting, and composite alerting, Datadog enables you to reliably alert the right people at the right time. But what happens when latency starts to increase, or error rates spike, in areas of your application where you haven’t set alerts? That’s what Watchdog is for.

Watchdog is a new auto-detection engine that surfaces performance problems in your applications without any manual setup or configuration. Using our extensively field-tested machine learning algorithms, Watchdog automatically detects issues in your data, such as latency spikes in your microservices, elevated error rates on any of your endpoints, or network issues in one of your cloud provider’s zones.