Reality Check: A Little Ice Cube Wisdom for Your Datadog Setup
In the early 90s, a wise man named Ice Cube once said “chickity-check yourself, before you wreck yourself”, and while at the time he didn’t know he was talking about SaaS products, he totally was. At some point, we’ve probably all gotten less value than expected out of a tool, or a much higher bill than expected, or some other form of parallel experience. Unfortunately, this only becomes more common the more complex a tool gets. Datadog is certainly a complex tool.
So if you’re not a fan of wrecking yourself, NoBS has something for you! We call it the Reality Check, and it’s a product offering where we create and present a brutally honest report of what’s going on in your Datadog and how to fix it.
Over the past few years, we’ve spent a good chunk of time writing the code for our secret sauce. This check isn’t just telling you the obvious things you might already know, like “we get too many alerts” or “our custom metric usage is way too high” - we’re going much deeper than that. For example - how many of the monitors in your account that show “No Data” were actually created with no data in the first place? Or, how effective are the log pipelines that you’ve created, and how many of your logs aren’t processed as a result?
We take a look at each area of the account that is in use; everything from Infrastructure to Logs and Synthetics and everything in between. Each category in the report has sections for Statistics, Notes, and Recommendations. Our statistics will help you understand the order of magnitude of the found issues, notes will explain why it’s called out and important, and recommendations will give you our best practices and advice on how to fix each found issue.
But it’s not a document that’s just “telling you what you did wrong”. We do also tell you what was done right, and encourage you to keep that up.
What’s the best part about this process though? We produce this in 2 weeks max and it’s less than five thousand bucks.
Interested in a NoBS Datadog Reality Check?
