Three Pillar
Name two types of serverless infrastructure
Lambda, Cloud Run, App Services, etc.
This is the name of Datadog's dog mascot!
Bits
This competitor focuses on logs. They have a very complex query language. We offer buyouts for contracts with them.
Splunk
A customer wants to optimize their k8s resource allocation
Infrastructure
What counts a billable APM Host?
A billable APM host is a host that is actively generating traces that are submitted to the Datadog (doesn't have to be datadog APM!) ie. oTel
What are the 3 "levels" of Sensitive Data Scanner
1.Agent level (yaml)
2. Full Obfuscation (in platform)
3. RBAC Obfuscation (in platform)
What datadog office has the most people
NYC
Name one feature in preview
many right answers
A customer is complaining about onboarding new employees to Splunk, and needing security analysis done on their logs
Logs + SIEM
How is a RUM session defined? When does it start/end
A session is a user journey on your web application. It expires after either 15 minutes of inactivity, or 4 hours of continuous activity
Golden Signal Metrics are at the core of observability, what are the Golden Metrics?
1. Requests
2. Errors
3. Latency
4. time spent downstream (bonus)
Name one major feature announced at Dash 2025
Bits AI, IDP, CloudPrem, etc.
What is the biggest advantage Dynatrace has over datadog - and why can it also be a bad thing
Ease of implementation - all or nothing
An e-commerce platform does not know where errors / sources of latency / failures are coming from in their stack, but knows they need to make improvements
3P + RUM
What major DD products are prices based on headcount (3)
CI vis
Code Security
On-Call
1: Agent with logs_enabled:true
2: Yaml file with path + source
3: File Permissions (read+execute)
Name two companies Datadog has purchased
Datadog's recent acquisitions include Eppo, Metaplane, Codiga, Cloudcraft, Seekret, and Ozcode. Earlier acquisitions include CoScreen, Hdiv, Sqreen, Logmatic.io, and Timber Technologies (Vector). Datadog has also been in talks to acquire Upwind
What is the difference between Static Code Analysis (SAST) and Software Composition Analysis (SCA)
A customer needs insights into the performance of their Queues
DSM
Explain (roughly) how Flex Logs is priced, and when it is advantageous
Based on compute. We have recommended tiers based on logging volumes and amount of users that will be leveraging it.
Advantageous for longer term "warm" storage at scale
What is the point of using the AWS/Azure/GCP integrations, if the Agent is going to be installed anyways?
cloud service metrics, cloud service logging, tags from cloud provider, correlation, etc.
What is Datadog's Stock Price Today (round to nearest dollar)
~140 (check to confirm)
What is the "biggest" feature we are planning on announcing at RE:invent?
Remote Agent Configuration (SO HYPE) (if it works) (please work)
A customer needs to make their cloud infrastructure SOC 2 compliant, wants to visualize everything they have within AWS, and wants to know if their customers are happy with the chatbot they have created.
CSM, CloudCraft, LLM Observability
What is included in the Datadog Code Security Bundle, and how much does it cost?
Datadog Static Code Analysis (SAST), Datadog Runtime Code Analysis (IAST), and Datadog Software Composition Analysis (both static SCA and runtime SCA)
$40 / committer / month