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Everyone talks about how great Apache Iceberg is, but nobody warns you about this: without proper maintenance, your tables will bloat, queries will slow down, and your catalog will run out of memory. Here are the 4 critical operations you MUST run regularly. Expiring snapshots prevents metadata bloat (Datadog learned this the hard way with catalog memory pressure). Deleting orphan files cleans up failed writes. Compacting data files keeps streaming workloads fast. Compacting manifests optimizes query planning.

Want to make your logs easier to work with? Excluding unneeded logs from indexing reduces noise and may reduce log management costs. In this video, you’ll learn how to: See for yourself how to improve log utilization with Datadog Log Patterns and log exclusion filters. Then set up an alert to track ingestion spikes.

Training an AI foundation model on over a trillion data points sounds impossible without hitting your production systems. Here's how Datadog did it with Apache Iceberg for their time series forecasting model TOTO. The key challenge: extracting massive historical observability data (metrics spanning years) and running incremental preprocessing pipelines without overwhelming production services. Iceberg solved this by providing schema governance, consistency guarantees, and seamless integration with ML tools like Ray and PyTorch.