INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
Your typical cloud monitoring service integrates with dozens of service and provides you a pretty dashboard and some automation to help you
keep tabs on how your applications are doing
Datadog has long done that but today, it is adding a new service called Watchdog, which uses machine learning to automatically detect
anomalies for you.
The company notes that a traditional monitoring setup involves defining your parameters based on how you expect the
application to behave and then set up dashboards and alerts to monitor them
Given the complexity of modern cloud applications, that approach has its limits, so an additional layer of automation becomes
necessary.
That where Watchdog comes in
The service observes all of the performance data it can get its paws on, learns what normal, and then provides alerts when something unusual
happens and — ideally — provides insights into where exactly the issue started.
&Watchdog builds upon our years of research and training
of algorithms on our customers data sets
This technology is unique in that it not only identifies an issue programmatically, but also points users to probable root causes to kick
off an investigation,& Datadog head of data science Homin Lee notes in today announcement.
The service is now available to all Datadog
customers in its Enterprise APM plan.
Through luck and grit, Datadog is fusing the culture of developers and operations
