Datadog launches Watchdog to help you monitor your cloud apps

Your typical cloud monitoring service integrates with dozens of service and provides you a pretty dashboard and some automation to help you keep tabs on how your applications are doing. Datadog has long done that but today, it is adding a new service called Watchdog, which uses machine learning to automatically detect anomalies for you.
The company notes that a traditional monitoring setup involves defining your parameters based on how you expect the application to behave and then set up dashboards and alerts to monitor them. Given the complexity of modern cloud applications, that approach has its limits, so an additional layer of automation becomes necessary.
That's where Watchdog comes in. The service observes all of the performance data it can get its paws on, learns what's normal, and then provides alerts when something unusual happens and - ideally - provides insights into where exactly the issue started.
“Watchdog builds upon our years of research and training of algorithms on our customers data sets....

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