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Tagged metrics let you add infrastructural dimensions to your metrics on the fly—without modifying the way ...

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Since launching Datadog, we've seen our thesis validated on a far broader scale than we had originally ...

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Automated alerts allow you to spot problems anywhere in your infrastructure, so that you can rapidly identify ...

Collect metrics and classify data so that you can receive meaningful, automated alerts about potential ...

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We are proud to sponsor the very first edition of Monitorama, the conference of open source monitoring that ...