“Ship a read-only triage brief first: alert summary, relevant Datadog monitors, last deploys to the service, likely repo, and an evidence pack a human can skim in two minutes.”
“Ship a read-only triage brief first: alert, Datadog monitors, last deploys, likely repo, then an evidence pack. Keep a service/dependency map and recent-deploy index instead of stuffing the whole codebase into RAG.”
“I just think that Datadog might have that "secret sauce" for tactical and more sophisticated PG and outbound but maybe I'm giving them more credit than there's due.”
“Feels like right now it's either roll your own Grafana/Prometheus/Burrow setup, or pay a ton for Datadog/Conduktor. Anyone found a middle ground that doesn't eat half a day to set up?”
“Ah yes I see datadog is pretty expensive, but can imagine you're using that already that it makes things easier. Perhaps have a look at langwatch, super strong in evals and better at simulations for multi-turn/tool-calling agents and the new observability is pretty awesome”
“If you can get your foot in the door at Datadog I would do it.. only thing is, they do put a big emphasis on in-office multiple days a week. So if you’re near a hub in Boston/Denver then that gives you a leg up.”
“Datadog without a doubt if you want to be in enterprise software sales and have more long term opportunities. LinkedIn is not considered serious selling.”
“At Large Company that have their own, custom o11y, talked with an eng... who said how much they'd love to use Datadog (or similar) because that would "just" work instead”
“Posthog, because it never tried to reinvent the wheel, it was already a great analytics tool that now also has first-class support for AI observability - akin to datadog”
“One time I had to do a system optimisation to increase the throughput of messages and was using Claude with Datadog and Couldwatch MCPs to figure out the bottlenecks by running load tests.”
“Honestly, withdrawing and taking the Datadog offer sounds like the right call. At some point the interview process itself becomes a red flag about the company”
“Datadog spend is one of the harder things to forecast because the bill doesn't move when your infrastructure changes, it moves when your telemetry changes, and almost nobody watches telemetry the way they watch infra.”