Knowing your SE
Whenever an SE is needed on any type of call, this type of request is required in Salesforce.
What is an SE Request?
This is the year Datadog was founded.
2010
This Datadog product collects metrics, logs, and traces from hosts using a lightweight install.
What is the Datadog Agent?
This is the description of a host in Datadog for pricing purposes.
A host is any physical or virtual OS instance that you monitor with Datadog. It could be a server, VM, node (in the case of Kubernetes) or App Service Plan instance (in the case of Azure App Services).
This Datadog feature lets engineers investigate incidents collaboratively with queries, graphs, and notes in a shareable document.
Notebooks
This person is the newest addition to the West 1 team.
Who is Melodie Varzandeh?
This is the year Datadog reached the S&P500.
2025
This product allows users to view an approximate recreation of user actions on a website or app.
What is Session Replay?
This is the standard retention period for indexed logs (it can be customized, but this is the baseline).
15 days
This Datadog product provides a centralized view of services, owners, and dependencies.
Software / Service Catalog
This meeting must occur at least 24 hours before a demo or 48-72 hours before an ESLT.
What is a sync?
Infrastructure Monitoring
This product allows customers to see an entire distributed request.
APM / Application Performance Monitoring
These are the 3 RUM-Related SKUs customers can be billed for.
RUM Measure, RUM Investigate, Session Replay
This is the name of the configuration file for the Datadog Agent.
datadog.yaml
This field/role in Salesforce must be filled out for that SE to get attainment/credit along with you on a deal.
What is Lead SE?
This is the city where the first Datadog office was created.
New York City / Big Apple
This type of test, attached to the synthetic testing product, simulates front-end flows.
What is a Mobile / Browser Test
This is the current pricing model for Bits AI SRE Investigations.
* The annual, on-demand, or monthly pricing model are all correct answers
- $500 / 20 investigations ($25 an investigation)
- $600 / 20 investigations ($30 an investigation)
- $36 / investigation
This datadog product allows developers to manage new functionality directly in the platform. Think of it like A/B Testing
Feature Flags
This SE won the 'Rookie of the Year' award at the most recent SKO. (Hint: They are not on this call)
Who is Savannah Medley?
Before IPO, Datadog reportedly declined a $7B acquisition offer from this networking giant.
Cisco
This security product scans the running of code within the running application, live in production.
Runtime Code Analysis (IAST)
This is the only Datadog product/SKU that is billed per seat.
This recently introduced Datadog capability lets AI agents interact with Datadog telemetry, like logs, metrics, traces, monitors, and incidents, directly from tools such as Claude, Codex, or other AI clients.
Datadog MCP Server