What’s Updog? Datadog’s New Tool Tells You Which Apps Are Down

Cloud monitoring and information level Datadog has solved an age-old joke: what’s updog?

Datadog’s reply is not, “Not much, you?” Rather, nan institution launched a web dashboard that shows developers nan position of dozens of services and devices for illustration AWS, Cloudflare, OpenAI, and Slack — fundamentally letting them cheque whether awesome package providers are functioning properly. The instrumentality is free, truthful anyone tin cheque Updog to find retired if awesome SaaS providers are up… dog.

Datadog intelligibly had nosy pinch this branding, arsenic they should. Rhys Sullivan, a package engineer, said successful an X station successful June, “you’re telling maine that datadog has an uptime monitoring merchandise and they didn’t telephone it ‘updog’?”

Four months later, Datadog technologist Tim Brown replied, “here you go,” and linked to nan recently launched Updog.

Sullivan’s first tweet was really referring to nan branding of a instrumentality wrong nan paid Datadog platform, which provides much in-depth monitoring tools, whereas Updog, which is free, is for much wide use. Anyone tin cheque nan position of celebrated online services without needing a Datadog subscription.

Jokes aside, Updog seems for illustration it will beryllium a useful free instrumentality for developers — and it astir apt would’ve travel successful useful connected Monday, erstwhile a day-long AWS outage took a awesome information of nan web offline, including immoderate banks, costs processors, and authorities services.

Datadog says that its Updog dashboard is group isolated by its usage of AI, which tin place subtle patterns successful telemetry — nan transmission and postulation of distant information from servers and services — that tin aboveground imaginable outages much quickly. If Updog tin successfully propulsion this off, that foreknowledge tin make a quality for businesses that dangle connected SaaS devices for everything from collecting payments to accessing cloud-stored data.

“Updog.ai precocious surfaced an Amazon DynamoDB degradation 32 minutes earlier AWS updated its ain position page,” Datadog wrote successful a blog post.

While a institution whitethorn not ever beryllium capable to debar awesome collapses for illustration this week’s AWS outage, knowing astir work issues early tin astatine slightest springiness companies other clip to measure their situation, and that’s what’s Updog.