Is your company built on software? How do you know if your customer's experience is slow and sucks? How do you debug slowness or troubleshoot an incident? Observability! David Mitchell, VP of Engineering at Datadog will talk to use about Observability, why it's important, what it is and how Datadog helps reduce toil in your environment. GDG Cloud Southlake #13

1. David Mitchell
VP of Engineering
June, 2022
Observability &
Datadog

2. What is Observability?

3. Observability is a measure of how well internal states of a
system can be inferred from knowledge of its external
outputs

4. Monitoring
Traditional Deployment
4
Logging
CPU / Memory / Disk
Application Performance
Monitoring
Service B Service C
Distributed Tracing

5. Increasingly complex software deployments systems
Virtualized Deployment
Traditional Deployment Container Deployment Serverless Architecture
5

6. Our definition of a system
continues to change

7. Complex systems create complex answers

8. Security
Compliance
Availability
Performance
Cost
Observability culture is the ability to answer questions about:
Is my business vulnerable or under attack?
Is my business legal?
Do system limitations or code issues prevent accessibility?
Are my users having a good experience?
Is my business efficient?
Proactive
Monitoring

9. Datadog & Observability

10. Datadog is a unified
SaaS platform for
observability,
monitoring and
security.
Built specifically for
the cloud
environments (public
or private)

11. All teams lack a single source of
truth and are often blindsided at
critical moments:
- Metrics indicate something is
wrong, but lack details
- Traces can point to the general
area, but aren’t specific
- Logs have high volume and
varying value, with cost and
visibility tradeoffs
Everything must be manually
queried and correlated
Traditional siloed monitoring tools
aren’t designed to detect problems
at cloud-scale

12. Datadog — Unified observability SaaS platform
500+

13. Live Demo

14. Q & A