From the course: Monitoring and Observability with Datadog

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What is Datadog?

What is Datadog?

- [Narrator] Datadog is a Software as a Service platform that helps organizations and individuals achieve full visibility into their applications and infrastructure. Datadog is fast-growing and constantly improving its features, such that as a customer, the extent of your visibility is constantly expanding and evolving. Having discussed the three pillars of observability: metrics, logs, and traces, Datadog gives you the ability to have these pillars present as you build your systems but also helps you correlate them, so that you can maximize the data and signals being sent out from your systems. You can easily integrate Datadog into your existing systems and with cloud infrastructure. It is rather easy to leverage existing Datadog integrations as you build your services. You are also able to customize your observability, such that you have metrics, logs, and traces that have product contexts which can be very powerful…

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