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Meet Datadog: A observability and security platform for cloud applications

Datadog is the observability and security platform for cloud applications

Datadog is the essential monitoring platform for cloud applications. It brings together data from servers, containers, databases, and third-party services to make your stack entirely observable. These capabilities help DevOps teams avoid downtime, resolve performance issues, and ensure customers are getting the best user experience.

Datadog Platform Core Benefits

See across systems, apps, and services

With turn-key integrations, Datadog seamlessly aggregates metrics and events across the full devops stack.

  • SaaS and Cloud providers
  • Automation tools
  • Monitoring and instrumentation
  • Source control and bug tracking
  • Databases and common server components
  • All listed integrations are supported by Datadog

Get full visibility into modern applications

Monitor, troubleshoot, and optimize application performance.

  • Trace requests from end to end across distributed systems
  • Track app performance with auto-generated service overviews
  • Graph and alert on error rates or latency percentiles (p95, p99, etc.)
  • Instrument your code using open source tracing libraries

Analyze and explore log data in context

Quickly search, filter, and analyze your logs for troubleshooting and open-ended exploration of your data.

  • Automatically collect logs from all your services, applications, and platforms
  • Navigate seamlessly between logs, metrics, and request traces
  • See log data in context with automated tagging and correlation
  • Visualize and alert on log data

*Proactively monitor your user experience
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End-to-end user experience visibility in a single platform.

  • Monitor critical user journeys captured with an easy-to-use web recorder
  • Save engineering resources with AI-powered, self-maintaining tests
  • Detect and alert on performance issues for users in various locations
  • Manage your SLAs and SLOs

Correlate frontend performance with business impact

Prioritize business and engineering decisions with user experience metrics.

  • Visualize load times, frontend errors, and resources for every user session
  • Slice and dice data using custom attributes
  • Troubleshoot quickly with frontend, backend and business metrics in one view

Unify network visibility across your clouds, applications, and devices

  • Get complete visibility across all your environments with Datadog Network Monitoring.
  • Unify your network visibility across multi-cloud, hybrid, and on-premises environments
  • Correlate across applications, networks, devices, and infrastructure
  • Remediate issues effectively with intelligent insights and alerting

Build real-time interactive dashboards

More than summary dashboards, Datadog offers all high-resolution metrics and events for manipulation and graphing.

  • See graphs across sources in real-time
  • Slice data by host, device, or any other tag
  • Compute rates, ratios, averages or integrals
  • Easily customize views, interactively or in code

Share what you saw, write what you did

System events and metrics are only part of the story. Datadog is built to give visibility across teams.

  • Discuss issues in-context with production data
  • Snapshot potential issues and notify your team
  • See who responded to that alert before
  • Remember what was done to fix it

Get alerted on critical issues

Datadog notifies you of performance problems, whether they affect a single host or a massive cluster.

  • Receive alerts on any metric, for a single host or for an entire cluster
  • Get notifications via e-mail, PagerDuty, Slack, and other channels
  • Build complex alerting logic using multiple trigger conditions
  • Mute all alerts with 1 click during upgrades and maintenance

Instrument your apps, write new integrations

Datadog includes full API access to bring observability to all your apps and infrastructure.

  • Capture events and metrics from your own applications using Datadog client libraries
  • Tag servers or query Datadog in command-line
  • Generate and upload JSON-formatted dashboards
  • UseDatadog Restful HTTP API for full data access

About DragonSoft:Your DevSecOps Solutions Expert

As a leading DevSecOps solution provider operating in Greater China, DragonSoft is dedicated to helping enterprises build efficient and secure software delivery pipelines. With extensive technical experience serving high-demand industries such as financial, technology, game development, automotive, and semiconductor design, we offer end-to-end services spanning from version control and project management to full-stack system observability.

As a key Datadog partner in Hong Kong, we go beyond official licensing and local technical support. We specialize in seamlessly integrating Datadog into your existing R&D and operations toolchains, ensuring your technology investment translates into tangible, pragmatic improvements in business performance.

To learn more about Datadog or to apply for a free trial, please contact us:

🌐 Website: www.hkdsdtech.com
📞 Phone: +852-51679050
✉️ Email: marketing@hkdsdtech.com

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