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Cloud monitoring and security platform Datadog has solved an old joke: What is an update?
Datadog’s answer isn’t: “Not much, are you?” Instead, the company launched a web dashboard that shows developers the status of dozens of services and tools like AWS, Cloudflare, OpenAI, and Slack, allowing them to check whether the major software providers are working properly. The tool is free, so anyone can check Updog to see if major SaaS providers are ready.
Datadog clearly had fun with this branding, as they should. “You’re telling me that datadog has a runtime monitoring product and they didn’t call it ‘updog’?” Rhys Sullivan, a software engineer, said in an X post in June.
Four months later, Datadog engineer Tim Brown responded, saying, “There you go,” and linked it to the newly launched Updog.
Sullivan’s initial tweet was actually referring to the branding of a tool within Datadog’s paid platform, which offers more in-depth monitoring tools, while Updog, which is free, is intended for more general use. Anyone can check the status of popular services online without needing a Datadog subscription.
Jokes aside, it looks like Updog will be a useful free tool for developers — and it will likely come in handy on Monday, when a daylong AWS outage took much of the web down, including some banks, payment processors, and government services.
Datadog says its Updog dashboard stands out for its use of artificial intelligence, which can identify subtle patterns in telemetry — the remote transmission and collection of data from servers and services — that can surface potential outages more quickly. If Updog can pull this off successfully, this prior knowledge could make a difference for businesses that rely on SaaS tools for everything from collecting payments to accessing data stored on the cloud.
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“Updog.ai recently showed degradation in Amazon DynamoDB 32 minutes before AWS updated its status page,” Datadog wrote in a blog post.
While a company may not always be able to avoid major meltdowns like this week’s AWS outage, knowing about service issues early can at least give companies extra time to evaluate their situation, and that’s what Updog is for.
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