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Cloud monitoring and security platform Datadog has solved an old joke: What’s up, dog?
Datadog replied no, “Not much, you?” Rather, the company launched a web dashboard that shows the status of dozens of services and tools like AWS, Cloudflare, OpenAI, and Slack for developers — essentially allowing them to check whether their major software providers are working properly. The tool is free, so anyone can check Updog To find out if the major SaaS providers have … dogs.
Datadog obviously had fun with this branding, as they should. Rhys Sullivan, a software engineer, said one X post In June, “You’re telling me that Datadog has an uptime monitoring product and they don’t call it ‘Updog’?”
Four months later, Datadog engineer Tim Brown replied, “Here you go,” and linked to the newly launched Updog.
Sullivan’s initial tweet actually refers to the branding of a tool within the Datadog platform, which offers more in-depth monitoring tools, while Updog, which is free, is for more general use. Anyone without a Datadog subscription can check the status of the popular online service.
Jokes aside, Updog looks like it’ll be a useful free tool for developers — and it’ll probably come in handy on Monday, when a Day-long AWS outage A large portion of the web has taken offline, including some banks, payment processors and government services
Datadog says its Updog dashboard is differentiated by its use of AI, which can detect subtle patterns in telemetry — the remote transmission and collection of data from servers and services — that can show potential outages more quickly. If Updog can successfully pull this off, that foresight could make a difference for businesses that rely on SaaS tools for everything from raising money to accessing cloud-stored data.
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“Updog.ai recently disclosed an Amazon DynamoDB crash 32 minutes before AWS updated its own status page,” Datadog wrote. Blog post.
While a company may not always be able to avoid a major fallout like this week’s AWS outage, knowing about service issues early can at least give companies extra time to assess their situation, and that’s what Updog is all about.
