Products to Listen For
We're doing a cloud migration and want to keep an eye on on-prem and cloud-based host metrics.
What is Infrastructure Monitoring?
The most granular way to start collecting data from individual hosts and containers using Datadog
What is the Datadog Agent?
Numerical values that can track anything about your environment over time, from latency to error rates to user signups.
What is a metric?
What Datadog security product enables a customer to shift most to the left?
Code Security
What does MTTR stand for?
Mean Time to Repair/Resolution
We want to identify costly queries and surface issues like missing indexes.
What is DBM
The Datadog Region that is best suited for an Azure hosted infrastructure
What is US3?
This visualization depicts a distributed request trace and each service call or span.
What is a flame graph
Which product would you recommend for a customer who wants to evaluate their SOC 2 Compliance posture?
Cloud Security Posture Management
The name of AWS's built in monitoring solution.
CloudWatch
We want a way of troubleshooting performance across our distributed stack. We often encounter spikes in latency and don't know why.
The Datadog platform feature helps visualize ownership, health, cost and security for services.
What is Software Catalog
A client is looking to identify the percentage of customers that may be under utilizing their webpage. What product would you recommend?
What is product analytics?
The tool you would recommend for a customer who is dealing with drift in output.
What is LLM Observability?
Legacy APM competitor known for penetration into large enterprise customers. Recognized for ease of setup.
Dynatrace
I want a way to troubleshoot my memory leaks and heap overflows.
Code Profiling
The file that Datadog Support team commonly requests from someone with a ticket to send them using the Datadog Agent?
What is a flare?
How does a customer ensure their data makes it through our SIEM tool?
Cloud SIEM Index
The tool that allows you to create and version datasets from scratch, then test them to uncover optimal model parameters.
LLM Experiments
What are these: NRQL; SPL; KQL, EQL, PromQL
Dedicated query languages
What is Data Observability?
Third party automation tool to both deploy the agent at scale and manage resources such as dashboards and monitors.
What is Terraform?
Name the CI/CD tool which enables developers to slowly roll out features to make sure their app doesn't break (A/B testing/canary deployments).
What is a feature flag?
What Datadog tool plugs directly into your coding environment?
What is our MCP Server?
Name 8 different Datadog competitors for the following products (one for each):
(Infra, Logs, APM, NDM, DBM, Security, LLM)
Infra: New Relic
Logs: Splunk
APM: Dynatrace
NDM: LogicMonitor
DBM: Solar Winds DPA
Security: Wiz
LLM: Weights and Biases