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 Kubernetes Resources
Infrastructure Monitoring
What counts as a billable APM Host?
A billable APM host is a host that is actively generating traces that are submitted to Datadog (doesn't have to be datadog APM!) ie. oTel
Why do customers use Cloud Integrations (AWS/Azure/GCP) even when the Agent is installed?
OOTB Dashboards silly. Also, they pull in metadata, tags, and managed service metrics the Agent can’t.
What datadog office has the most people
NYC
Name one feature in preview
GPU Monitoring, Storage Monitoring, CD Visibility, Data Observability, APM Recommendations, etc.
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 / web performance issues are coming from in their stack, but knows they need to make improvements (hint: 4)
3P + RUM
What's one way customers can control RUM costs?
Session Sampling
What is the most important component for enabling log file tailing with the agent (hint: it is always disabled)
Agent with logs_enabled:true
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 are two major ways Datadog differentiates itself from Splunk when talking about logs?
Ease of use (no complex query language),
Unified platform with infra/APM/RUM
Flexible pricing (LwL and a lil AE Magic)
A customer needs insights into the performance of their Queues
Data Streams Monitoring
Which Datadog security products are priced based on workload or data volume, not headcount?
CSPM (by cloud resource), SIEM (by GB of indexed logs), Application Security Monitoring (by APM host).
What are the 3 "levels" of Sensitive Data Scanner
1.Agent level (yaml)
2. Full Obfuscation (in platform)
3. RBAC Obfuscation (in platform)
In what year did Datadog IPO?
2019
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 and wants to know if their customers are happy with the chatbot they have created.
CSM (including CSPM) and LLM Observability
What are 2 ways customers can reduce their custom metric costs?
Aggregate metrics before sending them (e.g., use distributions/percentiles instead of raw values).
Limit high-cardinality tags (avoid tagging with things like user ID or session ID).
Remove unused custom metrics