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Words to Listen For
100

This is what you install on a host or container to start collecting metrics, logs, and traces for Datadog.

The Datadog Agent

100

What does APM stand for in Datadog?

Application Performance Monitoring

100

This new Datadog RUM feature automatically identifies root causes from frontend signals, eliminating manual investigation entirely.

RUM Investigator

100

This open standard for telemetry collection is widely adopted across observability vendors and is natively supported by Datadog.

OpenTelemetry (OTel)

100

A prospect from (MERCALIS) says: 'They already chunked out LogicMonitor and have some SolarWinds they're not happy with  it can't do a lot of things they need visibility into.' What's the Datadog opportunity?

Infrastructure Monitoring (full-stack consolidation)

200

What automatically detects containerized services and applies the right monitoring config via labels or annotations?

Autodiscovery

200

In Datadog APM, this visualization shows a full trace broken down into individual operations so you can spot where time is spent.

Flame graph

200

This new Datadog testing agent discovers user journeys and generates synthetic tests automatically, helping teams overcome test coverage gaps.

Bits Testing

200

This common Splunk pricing model, where cost is tied to how much data you ingest, makes it hard for customers to predict their bills.

Ingest-based / Volume-based pricing

200

A prospect from (SUNRISE BANKS) says: 'I did notice some errors we had no visibility on before. It's something I didn't know about until Datadog gave us the visibility.' What Datadog product likely surfaced this?

APM or Log Management

300

This Synthetic Monitoring feature runs tests from your own private network or data center.

Private locations

300

This Datadog capability automatically surfaces anomalies across pillars without you needing to configure manual rules.

Watchdog


300

This Datadog agentic infrastructure feature automatically detects and fixes infrastructure issues within customer-defined guardrails, formerly called 'Bits Infra.'

Bits Infrastructure Operations

300

What KPI should you anchor to in executive conversations to prove Datadog's value, measuring how quickly teams recover from incidents?

MTTR (Mean Time to Resolution)

300

A prospect from (BIGBEAR) says: 'On the support side, you just get things from our customers like it's running slow or it's broken. They're not going to say I think you've got a problem with this endpoint  we've got to come up with that ourselves.' What product helps?

APM

400

When deploying the Datadog Agent on Kubernetes, this is the recommended deployment method.

Datadog Operator

400

What Datadog product provides network-level observability, letting you see traffic flows between services and hosts?

Network Performance Monitoring (NPM)

400

This new Datadog log feature allows customers to keep logs in their own cloud environment while using Datadog for querying and analytics  designed to unblock regulated, data-residency-driven deals.

BYOC Logs (Bring Your Own Cloud)

400

Akido is primarily known for this this type of Security

Application/Code Security

400

A prospect from (INVATRON SYSTEMS) says: 'What I don't want to happen is I make changes on a Friday afternoon and then another team is assigned to mointor our suport line' What Datadog capability gives continuous visibility?

On-Call Alerting

500

What 3rd party tool helps create dashboards, monitors, and settings as code?

Terraform or Ansible

500

These two Datadog logging features provides cost-effective, long-term retention of your logs

Flex Logs

500

This new Datadog product provides a unified view of usage, cost, and productivity across every AI agent your org uses internally  including Claude Code, Cursor, and Bits AI SRE.

Agent Console 

500

If a prospect Langfuse what Datadog product would you recommend as a replacement?

LLM

500

A prospect from (SUNRISE BANKS) says: 'Our experience with the quick start guide for Kubernetes was not quick  it really didn't include everything we needed. We had to compile instructions from various pages.' What Datadog feature now handles this automatically?

Single Step Instrumentation

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