MEDIA & ENTERTAINMENT

End-to-End Observability for Modern Streaming Platforms

Monitor streaming delivery, media pipelines, and AI-powered workflows across infrastructure, applications, and viewer experience to maintain quality, reliability, and trust at scale.

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Media organizations all around the world trust Datadog with business-critical requirements, like monitoring, security, and modernization.

How the Washington Post responds to sudden traffic spikes

When the January 6 US Capitol attack occurred, a Datadog alert notified the Washington Post’s engineering team of an incoming spike in online traffic, so they were able to respond and scale their systems immediately to prevent outages. Learn how the team uses Datadog to monitor dynamic traffic cycles.

Director of Engineering
The Washington Post

When the January 6 US Capitol attack occurred, a Datadog alert notified the Washington Post’s engineering team of an incoming spike in online traffic, so they were able to respond and scale their systems immediately to prevent outages. Learn how the team uses Datadog to monitor dynamic traffic cycles.

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Performance, reliability, and security for modern streaming platforms

Deliver high-quality streaming experiences at global scale

Streaming reliability directly impacts viewer engagement and revenue. Even small delays in APIs, CDNs, or backend services can cause buffering, playback errors, and churn. Datadog provides end-to-end streaming observability by connecting player experience, application performance, and delivery infrastructure in real time. This gives teams clear visibility from playback to origin.

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Maintain reliable media delivery across ingest, transcode, and playback

Live events and large-scale releases place constant pressure on ingest, transcoding, packaging, and delivery pipelines. Bottlenecks or resource saturation can quickly cascade into missed SLAs and degraded playback. Datadog delivers unified visibility across media workflows, correlating job performance, infrastructure health, and delivery metrics to surface issues early and keep content moving reliably.

EXPLORE MEDIA PIPELINE OBSERVABILITY

Protect streaming platforms, APIs, and audience trust

Piracy, credential abuse, and API attacks put premium content, customer data, and revenue at risk. As streaming platforms scale across devices, regions, and CDNs, the attack surface grows rapidly. Datadog unifies observability and security to detect threats across applications, APIs, and infrastructure in real time. This enables teams to stop abuse faster without impacting performance or viewer experience.

EXPLORE STREAMING SECURITY & CONTENT PROTECTION

Optimized live streaming services for 60M+ users on the Vidio platform

Increased application uptime and high-stream quality optimizations without sacrificing security

“To keep our lead in the market, we must flawlessly deliver content to our consumers. This requires us to scale our infrastructure in response to customer demand.”

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