Datadog Launches Updog for Application Visibility

A long-standing joke has been resolved by the cloud monitoring and security software Datadog by the introduction of the Updog.

The business released a web dashboard that allows developers to see the state of numerous services and tools, including AWS, Cloudflare, OpenAI, and Slack. This essentially allows developers to verify that major software suppliers are operating as intended. To find out if big SaaS companies are up-dog, anyone can check Updog, which is a free tool.

It’s obvious that Datadog enjoyed this branding, as they should. A software engineer named Rhys Sullivan wrote in a June X post, “You’re telling me that Datadog has an uptime monitoring product and they didn’t call it ‘updog’?” 

Tim Brown, an engineer at Datadog, said, “Here you go,” and provided a link to the just released Updog four months later.

The branding of a product within the premium Datadog platform which offers more comprehensive monitoring tools as opposed to Updog, which is free and intended for broader use was what Sullivan was actually referring to in his initial tweet. Popular internet services can be checked for status by anybody without a Datadog subscription.

Jokes aside, Updog looks like it will be a helpful free tool for developers. It would have likely been helpful on Monday, when a day-long AWS outage brought most of the internet down, including government services, banks, and payment processors.

Datadog claims that their Updog dashboard is unique because it uses artificial intelligence (AI) to spot minute patterns in telemetry, which is the transmission and gathering of distant data from servers and services, which can reveal possible failures faster. For companies that rely on SaaS technologies for anything from money collection to cloud data access, Updog’s ability to do this ahead of time could be crucial.

Datadog noted in a blog post that “Updog.ai recently surfaced an Amazon DynamoDB degradation 32 minutes before AWS updated its own status page.”

Being aware of service problems early might at least allow businesses more time to evaluate their situation, which is what Updog does, even though they may not always be able to prevent significant collapses like this week’s AWS outage.

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