Company
Date Published
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Brianne Bujnowski, Hugo Puceat
Word count
694
Language
English
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None

Summary

Updog.ai is a free, public-facing web page by Datadog that provides real-time health status updates for over 30 popular SaaS providers and 13 AWS services, leveraging aggregated, anonymized observability data and AI models. This platform enables users to independently verify the status of services like OpenAI, Zoom, and GitHub, offering a single dashboard that highlights performance issues or outages as they arise, without relying on vendor-controlled status updates. Updog.ai also provides historical views with up to 90 days of degradation history, which helps identify recurring reliability issues and supports informed decision-making for improved fault tolerance. By analyzing telemetry data from thousands of environments, Updog.ai extends observability beyond individual systems, offering a collective intelligence that surfaces systemic error signals. This AI-driven approach allows Datadog to detect issues faster than vendor-maintained status pages, exemplified by its ability to identify a degradation in Amazon DynamoDB 32 minutes before AWS's own update. Future expansions of Updog.ai are planned to include GPU availability monitoring, spot interruption monitoring, and cyber attack vector monitoring, enhancing its scope as a comprehensive resource for real-time service transparency.