Datadog Observability

Overview

Datadog is a SaaS observability platform providing unified monitoring across infrastructure, applications, logs, and user experience. It offers AI-powered anomaly detection, 1000+ integrations, and OpenTelemetry compatibility.

Core Capabilities:

• APM: Distributed tracing with automatic instrumentation for 8+ languages
• Infrastructure: Host, container, and cloud service monitoring
• Logs: Centralized collection with processing pipelines and 15-month retention
• Metrics: Custom metrics via DogStatsD with cardinality management
• Synthetics: Proactive API and browser testing from 29+ global locations
• RUM: Frontend performance with Core Web Vitals and session replay

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