Cost Controls and so Much More: Issue Detection Through Usage Analysis

Keeping tabs on cloud spending across multiple organizations and vendors, including Datadog, can be tough and costly. If you're not tracking expenses, you're also missing other critical insights.

The Flight Centre Travel Group (FCTG) faced this when moving to Datadog, needing to monitor costs across numerous organizations and over 180 Azure subscriptions. After a rapid migration, new cost reports quickly revealed more than just financial benefits. Unusual spending patterns often highlighted incidents, bugs, or security issues, offering early warnings about internal system problems.

Join Geoff Jubb, FCTG's Platform Engineering Operations Group lead, to learn how you can incorporate costs into your observability and get earlier alerts on any operational anomalies.