Question 1

What is Updog?

Accepted Answer

Updog is a real-time outage detection service by Datadog that monitors cloud services and detects issues faster than official status pages using observability data from thousands of customers.

Question 2

How does Updog detect outages?

Accepted Answer

Updog analyzes error rates across Datadog's customer base to detect issues with cloud services before they're announced on official status pages.