What does Datadog do?

Datadog is monitoring software - developers use it to get operational visibility (what’s broken? What’s taking too long?) into their servers and applications.

• As applications and infrastructure have gotten more complex, developers need to know what’s going on under the hood so they can pre-empt and troubleshoot

• Datadog provides a product and series of SDKs (little code libraries) that let you instrument your application, record your metrics, and analyze them visually

• Generally, the Datadog platform has 4 major components: server monitoring, application monitoring, logs, and Other Stuff™

The New York based (surprisingly enough) company IPOd back in 2019, and is worth $23B (!) at the time of writing. So they’re definitely onto something. 

Servers, apps, and metrics