In March, Datadog experienced a global outage. It was the first of its kind and called for a massive response that involved several hundred engineers working in shifts over the course of the outage, in addition to many concurrent video calls, chats, workstreams, and customer interactions. Within days, we had compiled hundreds of pages of internal deep dives and after-action reports.Like many of you, as custodians of large-scale, complex systems, we have always lived with the realistic expectation that a massive outage was bound to happen one day—not if but when ..read more

Firewall systems are critical for protecting your network and devices from unauthorized traffic. There are several types of firewalls that you can deploy for your environment via hardware, software, or the cloud—and they all typically fall under one of two categories: network-based or host-based. Network-based firewalls monitor and filter traffic to and from your network, whereas host-based firewalls manage traffic to and from a specific host, such as a laptop ..read more

Getting paged to investigate high-urgency issues is a normal aspect of being an engineer. But none of us expect (or want) to get paged about every single deployment. That was what started happening with an application in our usage estimation service. Regardless of the size of the fix or the complexity of the feature we pushed out, we would get paged about high startup latency—an issue that was never related to our changes ..read more

Cloudera Data Platform (CDP) is a data analytics and management platform that enables users to centralize, visualize, and govern their data. While users may be accustomed to data analytics solutions that are completely siloed and difficult to scale, CDP is designed to be flexible, giving customers the ability to integrate with open source technologies and deploy in a hybrid, cloud-native, or multi-cloud environment.If you’re using CDP Public Cloud, then you now have the ability to use Datadog’s Cloudera integration ..read more

Join Datadog and Avi Douglen, CEO of Bounce Security & Vice-Chair of OWASP, as they share insights on: Which vulnerabilities really matter Which threats actually present a risk to your organization (but also which threats don’t) What characteristics of your applications and APIs have an impact on their risk ..read more

When your applications are experiencing degraded frontend performance, every minute of investigation counts towards minimizing the impact of regressions on your users. That’s why we built Watchdog Insights, an AI-powered recommendations engine that augments monitoring investigations by intelligently surfacing data that sheds light on outliers in the errors and latency affecting your applications. Watchdog Insights is available in Datadog query tools, including the APM Trace Explorer, Log Explorer, Live Containers view, and now the RUM Explorer ..read more

On March 8, 2023, Datadog experienced an outage that affected all services across multiple regions. In a separate blog post we describe how our products were impacted.This event was highly unusual from the start. An outage that affects services across multiple regions is rare because our regions don’t have direct connections with one another, and because we roll out changes in one region at a time. An outage that affects services across multiple regions running on distinct cloud providers at the same time ..read more

Many organizations have faced the complex challenges that come with mainframe monitoring. MIPS-based cost models make native mainframe software expensive, and deploying individual agents to user desktops and devices is difficult to maintain and scale. To address these challenges, Bottomline Technologies—a leading provider of financial technology—has created Bottomline Record and Replay, a non-invasive mainframe security solution that allows you to monitor legacy IBM Mainframe 3270 and IBM System 5250 users via network traffic ..read more

Azure OpenAI is a service for deploying AI applications on Azure resources. With its easy-to-use REST APIs, you can leverage the service to access OpenAI’s powerful language models, such as ChatGPT, for your applications while taking advantage of the reliability and security of the Azure platform. Datadog already offers an out-of-the-box integration for OpenAI so you can monitor key performance trends, such as API usage patterns, token consumption, and more. We’re excited to announce that we’re providing the same comprehensive visibility for Azure OpenAI, enabling you to monitor costs and perf ..read more

Migrating your on-prem applications to Azure can help you improve scalability, reliability, and security. It can also help reduce costs and free your engineering teams to focus on innovation and performance optimization. But it can be hard to understand Azure costs as they evolve during your migration and to see how they correlate with your resource utilization once you’re up and running in Azure.The engineering teams who build out Azure infrastructure and deploy application code often can’t see Azure cost data ..read more