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Datadog on Informed Product Development

Datadog is an observability and security platform. That means that our users may be in a high stress situation: debugging an issue in production, managing an incident or responding to a security threat. Having a good UX is particularly critical in those cases. User interviews are very helpful, but after a product has been released in production we are able to gather a lot more data to understand how customers interact with it and make decisions about how it can be improved.

How The Washington Post uses Datadog to detect and respond to traffic spikes early

Stephen Erickson, Director of Engineering at The Washington Post, discusses how Datadog's alerting and unified visibility into their entire architecture are instrumental in managing dynamic traffic cycles caused by breaking news. An early Datadog alert on the day of the Capitol riots notified the team of a spike in traffic so they were able to respond and scale their systems immediately.

This Month in Datadog: Episode 11

Datadog is constantly elevating the approach to cloud monitoring and security. This Month in Datadog updates you on our newest product features, announcements, resources, and events. To learn more about Datadog and start a free 14-day trial, visit Cloud Monitoring as a Service | Datadog. This month we put the Spotlight on automated root cause analysis with Watchdog RCA.