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Cloud monitoring and security platform Datadog has solved an age-old joke: What\u2019s up, dog?<\/p>\n
Datadog\u2019s answer is not, \u201cNot much, you?\u201d Rather, the company launched a web dashboard that shows developers the status of dozens of services and tools like AWS, Cloudflare, OpenAI, and Slack \u2014 essentially letting them check whether major software providers are functioning properly. The tool is free, so anyone can check Updog<\/a> to find out if major SaaS providers are up\u00a0\u2026 dog.<\/p>\n Datadog clearly had fun with this branding, as they should. Rhys Sullivan, a software engineer, said in an X post <\/a>in June, \u201cyou\u2019re telling me that datadog has an uptime monitoring product and they didn\u2019t call it \u2018updog\u2019?\u201d<\/p>\n Four months later, Datadog engineer Tim Brown replied, \u201cHere you go,\u201d and linked to the newly launched Updog.<\/p>\n Sullivan\u2019s initial tweet was actually referring to the branding of a tool within the paid Datadog platform, which provides more in-depth monitoring tools, whereas Updog, which is free, is for more general use. Anyone can check the status of popular online services without needing a Datadog subscription.<\/p>\n Jokes aside, Updog seems like it will be a useful free tool for developers \u2014 and it probably would\u2019ve come in handy on Monday, when a day-long AWS outage<\/a> took a great portion of the web offline, including some banks, payment processors, and government services.<\/p>\n Datadog says that its Updog dashboard is set apart by its use of AI, which can identify subtle patterns in telemetry \u2014 the transmission and collection of remote data from servers and services \u2014 that can surface potential outages more quickly. If Updog can successfully pull this off, that foreknowledge can make a difference for businesses that depend on SaaS tools for everything from collecting payments to accessing cloud-stored data.<\/p>\n Techcrunch event<\/p>\n \n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tSan Francisco<\/span> \u201cUpdog.ai recently surfaced an Amazon DynamoDB degradation 32 minutes before AWS updated its own status page,\u201d Datadog wrote in a blog post<\/a>.<\/p>\n While a company may not always be able to avoid major collapses like this week\u2019s AWS outage, knowing about service issues early can at least give companies extra time to assess their situation, and that\u2019s what\u2019s Updog. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n
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