When running any amount of systems, gaining visibility into what they are doing can be a non-trivial matter. Starting on the path to monitoring can prove bumpy, and if you don’t measure, you don’t know. In this session, Michael Fiedler, Director of TechOps, will speak on personal experience with scalability, deployment, and monitoring challenges prior to using Datadog - and how that changed. He will cover how to get started, and examples of where monitoring the company's platform with Datadog provided the guiding light towards the team solving scalability problems.