Because DevOps practices emphasize cross-team collaboration, engineers need to understand not only their own systems, but also the upstream and downstream systems that are intertwined with their own. Datadog unifies the logs, traces, and metrics from every application and infrastructure component across the organization, so teams can visualize and analyze all the data that matters to them. Visualizations like the service map and network map enable developers to track real-time data flow between services and infrastructure components to build a complete understanding of an application's architecture and dependencies.
“We needed to make it such that a bunch of different teams could move independently and make their own decisions rather than centralizing a lot of decision making and operations through a single team.”
– Steven Verleye, Infrastructure Engineering Manager, BazaarVoice