Company
Date Published
Author
Thomas Sobolik, Meghan Lo
Word count
949
Language
English
Hacker News points
None

Summary

Watchdog Insights for Datadog Real User Monitoring is an AI-powered engine that helps teams quickly investigate and resolve frontend application performance issues. By analyzing real-time RUM events, Watchdog identifies tagged outliers associated with higher-than-usual errors, latency, and Core Web Vitals values in frontend views, providing context to help teams more efficiently investigate ongoing issues and identify potential problems that may worsen in the future. The tool surfaces anomalous patterns of latency or errors associated with specific facets such as user location, browser version, or code release, helping teams find root causes when their application is experiencing degraded performance. Watchdog can supplement Datadog RUM's alerting and incident response workflows by providing key context, including total customer impact, breakdowns of related tags, and highlighted errors. The tool also helps teams characterize frontend performance during broader investigations, spotting UX performance bottlenecks and potential problems that affect views' load performance, interactivity, and visual stability. Watchdog Insights is generally available in Datadog query tools, providing teams with more clarity with less effort to investigate ongoing issues and identify potential new ones more efficiently.