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Date Published
Author
Paige Andrews, Roxanne Moslehi
Word count
991
Language
English
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None

Summary

Engineering leaders often face challenges in effectively monitoring their teams' performance and ensuring the reliability of their services due to scattered metrics and inconsistent reporting. Datadog addresses these issues by offering tailored insights through its Internal Developer Portal (IDP), which includes Engineering Reports and a Developer Overview page. These tools provide engineering teams with a unified view of service level objectives (SLOs), incident trends, and compliance with engineering standards, enabling them to track reliability, adherence to best practices, and delivery performance using DORA metrics. The centralized platform helps minimize context switching for developers by consolidating crucial information like Jira tickets and GitHub pull requests into a single dashboard, thereby improving focus and task completion. By offering comprehensive visibility and actionable insights, Datadog's IDP enhances engineering effectiveness, allowing leaders to make informed decisions and drive improvements in service health and software delivery.