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Datadog
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2735
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English
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Summary

Datadog provides unified visibility into application health and performance across the full development lifecycle for both front- and backend developers. The platform offers features such as Single Step Instrumentation, which enables one engineer to instrument all services in minutes, and Adaptive Ingestion Sampling, which automatically adjusts sampling rates to hit budgeted usage. Additionally, Datadog offers data observability features like Data Jobs Monitoring, which helps detect problematic Spark and Databricks jobs, and Data Streams Monitoring, which provides a unified end-to-end view of ingestion, processing, and storage. The platform also offers digital experience monitoring tools such as RUM Custom Vitals, which enables tracking frontend component performance based on real user activity, and Datadog Mobile RUM, which provides comprehensive crash reporting across iOS, Android, and React Native apps.