Delivery and observability

Datadog

A hosted observability platform that covers a great deal of ground without a monitoring stack to run.

When we reach for it

Teams who would rather buy observability than operate it, and estates already reporting into it. Usually the right call, since a self-hosted monitoring stack is itself a system that can go down, and it tends to go down at the same time as everything else.

When we would argue against it

Cost-sensitive engagements with high cardinality. The bill scales with what you instrument, and it surprises people. We would rather set the ingestion and retention deliberately at the start than have finance cap it for you after the first surprising invoice.

What it looks like in delivery

Instrumented through OpenTelemetry where possible, so the telemetry is not locked to the contract. Retention reviewed against what anybody actually queries, because most log volume in a mature system is never read by a human being.

Where this appears on the site

Nothing on this site names it yet

We work in Datadog, and no case study or service page currently published on this site prints it in its stack. Rather than describe an engagement you cannot check, this space stays empty until one does. Ask us and we will talk you through it directly.

Working in Datadog?

Tell us what it is running, what it costs you today, and what you need it to do next. A senior engineer will tell you what we would keep and what we would change.