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, the institution launched a web dashboard that shows developers the presumption of dozens of services and tools similar AWS, Cloudflare, OpenAI, and Slack — fundamentally letting them cheque whether large bundle providers are functioning properly. The instrumentality is free, truthful anyone tin cheque Updog to find retired if large SaaS providers are up… dog.

Datadog intelligibly had amusive with this branding, arsenic they should. Rhys Sullivan, a bundle 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 the recently launched Updog.

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

Jokes aside, Updog seems similar it volition beryllium a utile escaped instrumentality for developers — and it astir apt would’ve travel successful useful connected Monday, erstwhile a day-long AWS outage took a large information of the web offline, including immoderate banks, outgo processors, and authorities services.

Datadog says that its Updog dashboard is acceptable isolated by its usage of AI, which tin place subtle patterns successful telemetry — the 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 marque a quality for businesses that beryllium connected SaaS tools 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 presumption page,” Datadog wrote successful a blog post.

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