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The latest News and Information on Application Performance Monitoring and related technologies.

Data Observability: Build confidence in the data life cycle

Datadog Data Observability provides a complete solution with quality checks (e.g., volume, row changes, freshness), custom SQL-based monitors, anomaly detection, column-level lineage across systems like Snowflake and Tableau, full pipeline visibility, and targeted alerts when data issues arise.

Explore Cloud Instance Pricing and Performance with Datadog Instance Explorer

Meet Datadog Instance Explorer — a way to explore, compare, and monitor cloud instance pricing and performance across AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud in one place. In this quick overview, you’ll learn how to: Start exploring your instance options today and make smarter, data-driven infrastructure decisions.

Datadog GPU Monitoring: Optimize and troubleshoot AI infrastructure

With Datadog GPU Monitoring, engineering and ML teams can monitor GPU fleet health across cloud, on-prem, and GPU-as-a-Service platforms like Coreweave and Lambda Labs. Real-time insights into allocation, utilization, and failure patterns make it easy to spot bottlenecks, eliminate idle GPU spend, and resolve provisioning gaps. By tying usage metrics directly to cost and surfacing hardware and networking issues impacting performance, Datadog helps teams make fast, cost-efficient decisions to keep AI workloads running reliably at scale.

Bringing Observability to Data

While observability practices have evolved in recent years, they have largely focused on application services and infrastructure. Yet it is data what powers our applications, businesses, and AI models. When data issues occur, the consequences can be far reaching, from poor product experiences to billing errors to misinformed AI outcomes. In this session, Jonathan Morin, Group Product Manager at Datadog, shares real-world examples of incidents and explains how data observability can address them, helping teams detect issues earlier, reduce costly downtime, and restore trust in their data.

The Hidden Bottleneck in Latency: GetYourGuide's Database Performance Journey

Fast front-end and back-end code alone won’t guarantee low end-to-end latency as hidden bottlenecks in the database can undermine even the best engineering efforts. In this session, Oleksii Serhiienko, Senior Site Reliability Engineer at GetYourGuide, will share how his team put database performance at the center of their monitoring strategy. He will highlight how they identified and fixed slow queries, uncovered load balancing issues that drove significant cost savings, and built monitoring practices that improved both reliability and investigation workflows.

APM vs Observability: What comes next?

Remember how I said that blog was going to be my last entry on the topic of "APM vs Observability?" Well, it turns out I had a little more to say. I'd like to spend a few moments talking about the future of APM and Observability. I think it comes down to two major initiatives: AI and Open Telemetry. (NOTE: in this section, I'm using the word "observability" to refer to the discipline of monitoring and observability as a whole, rather than any specific tool, technique, or vendor-based solution.)

Top DevOps Challenges in 2025 and How APM Solves Them

In 2025, DevOps continues to grow and change quickly, helping teams deliver software faster and more securely. But as systems become more complex with microservices, cloud platforms, and AI-driven tools, new challenges arise. Teams now need to balance speed with security, manage too many tools, control rising cloud costs, and still maintain high-quality software. This is where Application Performance Monitoring (APM) becomes essential.

Use Grok parsing to extract fields from logs | Datadog Tips & Tricks

When your logs don’t follow a standard format, it can be difficult to extract valuable information, like key-value pairs and nested JSON objects. Grok parsing lets you define flexible patterns that match unstructured log data so you can extract specific fields to query, filter, and visualize. In this video, you’ll learn how to: By refining your Grok parsers, you can make your logs more useful for analytics, dashboards, or alerts, and get even more value from your logs.

Detecting an AWS Outage and DR Lessons

A few weeks ago, on 20th October 2025, AWS suffered a widespread outage in its US-EAST-1 region that affected a large number of customers globally. More than 1,000 apps and websites were impacted including major banks and popular games, streaming and social platforms such as WhatsApp, Snapchat, Fortnite and Pokémon Go.

What is APM? Understanding application performance monitoring

The rapid advancement of technology has revolutionised the way businesses operate and engage with their customers. A delay of even a few seconds can lead to significant drop-offs in engagement and conversions. According to Google's findings, "just a 100-millisecond lag can reduce revenue by 1%, and a half-second delay can cause a 20% drop in search engine traffic".