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Diogo MaskeApr 27, 2026 • 4 min read
Segurança em nuvem na prática: o que aprendi sobre misconfiguration com Datadog
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#datadog#aws#gcp#security
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YukiOnoderaMay 1, 2026 • 3 min read
Instrumenting Python Apps with Datadog APM: A Docker Setup Guide
Introduction In this post, we'll walk through the components required to instrument a...
#datadog#apm#python#docker
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ANKUSH CHOUDHARY JOHALApr 28, 2026 • 14 min read
Opinion: Why Datadog 7.0 Is Too Expensive: Use OpenTelemetry 1.20 and Prometheus 2.50 Instead
After migrating 14 production microservices across 200 hosts from Datadog 7.0 to a stack built on...
#opinion#datadog#expensive#opentelemetry
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ANKUSH CHOUDHARY JOHALMay 2, 2026 • 2 min read
OpenTelemetry 1.25 vs. Datadog 2026: Tracing Overhead for 1000 RPS Microservices Workloads Measured
OpenTelemetry 1.25 vs Datadog 2026: Tracing Overhead for 1000 RPS Microservices...
#opentelemetry#datadog#2026#tracing
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FetchSandboxApr 27, 2026 • 2 min read
Test Datadog API endpoints without an API key
Datadog's API requires two keys just to list your monitors. Here's how to test the full flow without...
#datadog#api#testing#monitoring
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ANKUSH CHOUDHARY JOHALApr 28, 2026 • 15 min read
Postmortem: How a OpenTelemetry 1.20 Misconfiguration and Datadog 1.20 Agent Crash Lost 2 Hours of Metrics
At 14:17 UTC on October 12, 2023, a misconfigured OpenTelemetry 1.20 SDK export pipeline and a silen...
#postmortem#opentelemetry#misconfiguration#datadog
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ANKUSH CHOUDHARY JOHALApr 28, 2026 • 15 min read
Opinion: Why We Ditched Datadog for OpenTelemetry 1.20 (And Never Looked Back)
In Q3 2024, our 14-person engineering team at a Series B fintech cut observability spend by 72% (fro...
#opinion#ditched#datadog#opentelemetry
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ANKUSH CHOUDHARY JOHALApr 28, 2026 • 15 min read
Step-by-Step Guide to Ditching Datadog 2025 for OpenTelemetry 1.20: Cost Savings Case Study
In 2024, the average mid-sized SaaS startup spent $42,000 annually on Datadog observability licenses...
#stepbystep#guide#ditching#datadog
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ANKUSH CHOUDHARY JOHAL6d ago • 3 min read
Why You Should Ditch Datadog 7.50 for OpenTelemetry 1.20 and Grafana 10.4: Observability Vendor Lock-In Is Real
Why You Should Ditch Datadog 7.50 for OpenTelemetry 1.20 and Grafana 10.4 Observability...
#should#ditch#datadog#opentelemetry
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ANKUSH CHOUDHARY JOHALMay 1, 2026 • 3 min read
Incident Postmortem: Datadog Outage Delayed Detection by 2 Hours, Switched to OTel 1.20
Incident Postmortem: Datadog Outage Delayed Detection by 2 Hours, Switched to OTel...
#incident#postmortem#datadog#outage
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ANKUSH CHOUDHARY JOHALApr 28, 2026 • 16 min read
We Ditched Splunk for Datadog 7.45 and Splunk Cloud: 35% Lower Costs
After 18 months of running a hybrid observability stack with on-prem Splunk Enterprise 9.1 and Splun...
#ditched#splunk#datadog#cloud
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ANKUSH CHOUDHARY JOHAL5d ago • 16 min read
How to Monitor LLM Hallucinations in Production with Datadog 1.20 and LangChain 0.3 – Real-World Data from Meta
In 2024, Meta reported that 23% of LLM-generated responses in production customer support flows...
#monitor#hallucinations#production#datadog
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ANKUSH CHOUDHARY JOHAL6d ago • 14 min read
Benchmark: Jaeger 1.50 vs. Honeycomb 2.0 vs. Datadog APM 7.0 for 1M Spans per Second
When your distributed system hits 1 million spans per second, your observability stack stops being a...
#benchmark#jaeger#honeycomb#datadog
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ANKUSH CHOUDHARY JOHAL5d ago • 11 min read
Opinion: Why We Ditched OpenTelemetry 1.20 for Datadog 7 – Compliance and Support Matter More
OpenTelemetry 1.20 promised vendor-neutral observability, but after 18 months of 12-hour incident...
#opinion#ditched#opentelemetry#datadog
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ANKUSH CHOUDHARY JOHALApr 28, 2026 • 12 min read
Sentry 24.0 vs. Datadog 1.20: Error Tracking Accuracy for 2026 React 19 Single Page Apps
In 2026, React 19’s concurrent rendering and automatic hydration split error tracking tools to the.....
#sentry#datadog#errors#tracking
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ANKUSH CHOUDHARY JOHALApr 30, 2026 • 15 min read
Retrospective: We Migrated from Datadog 7.0 to Prometheus 3.0 and Cut Monitoring Costs by 50%
In Q3 2024, our 12-person backend engineering team at a mid-sized fintech (handling 2.1M daily activ...
#retrospective#migrated#datadog#prometheus
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ANKUSH CHOUDHARY JOHALApr 28, 2026 • 14 min read
Why New Relic Is Better Than Datadog for SMBs in 2026: 100 Service Case Study
In Q1 2026, we benchmarked 100 production services across 12 SMB engineering teams and found New...
#relic#better#than#datadog
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ANKUSH CHOUDHARY JOHALApr 28, 2026 • 12 min read
OpenTelemetry 1.28 vs. Datadog 7.0: Observability Cost Savings of 40% for Microservices
In a 12-week benchmark across 47 production microservices, OpenTelemetry 1.28 reduced observability....
#opentelemetry#datadog#observability#cost
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ANKUSH CHOUDHARY JOHAL4d ago • 15 min read
Deep Dive: How Datadog 2026.0 Calculates DORA Metrics for Kubernetes 1.33 Workloads
In 2025, 68% of Kubernetes teams reported DORA metric discrepancies of >40% between their...
#deep#dive#datadog#20260
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ANKUSH CHOUDHARY JOHALApr 28, 2026 • 14 min read
War Story: We Replaced Sentry 24.0 with Datadog 1.20 and Improved Error Resolution Time by 37%
At 3:14 AM on a Tuesday, our on-call engineer was staring at Sentry 24.0’s error dashboard, trying t...
#story#replaced#sentry#datadog
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ANKUSH CHOUDHARY JOHALApr 28, 2026 • 5 min read
Why New Relic Is Better Than Datadog for SMBs in 2026: 100 Service Case Study
In 2026, SMBs running 100+ microservices face a brutal observability tax: Datadog’s per-host pricing...
#relic#better#than#datadog
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