Config
This is what you install on a host or container to start collecting metrics, logs, and traces for Datadog.
The Datadog Agent
What does APM stand for in Datadog?
Application Performance Monitoring
This new Datadog RUM feature automatically identifies root causes from frontend signals, eliminating manual investigation entirely.
RUM Investigator
This open standard for telemetry collection is widely adopted across observability vendors and is natively supported by Datadog.
OpenTelemetry (OTel)
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)
What automatically detects containerized services and applies the right monitoring config via labels or annotations?
Autodiscovery
In Datadog APM, this visualization shows a full trace broken down into individual operations so you can spot where time is spent.
Flame graph
This new Datadog testing agent discovers user journeys and generates synthetic tests automatically, helping teams overcome test coverage gaps.
Bits Testing
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
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
This Synthetic Monitoring feature runs tests from your own private network or data center.
Private locations
This Datadog capability automatically surfaces anomalies across pillars without you needing to configure manual rules.
Watchdog
This Datadog agentic infrastructure feature automatically detects and fixes infrastructure issues within customer-defined guardrails, formerly called 'Bits Infra.'
Bits Infrastructure Operations
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)
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
When deploying the Datadog Agent on Kubernetes, this is the recommended deployment method.
Datadog Operator
What Datadog product provides network-level observability, letting you see traffic flows between services and hosts?
Network Performance Monitoring (NPM)
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)
Akido is primarily known for this this type of Security
Application/Code Security
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
What 3rd party tool helps create dashboards, monitors, and settings as code?
Terraform or Ansible
These two Datadog logging features provides cost-effective, long-term retention of your logs
Flex Logs
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
If a prospect Langfuse what Datadog product would you recommend as a replacement?
LLM
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