The Datadog difference – partnering to deliver advanced observability
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The Datadog difference – partnering to deliver advanced observability
Matt Bailey
Published on 25 February 2026
6 min read
Matt Bailey
Published on 25 February 2026
6 min read
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Meet Datadog
Datadog is an observability specialist
Why observability matters
Observability day to day – from reactive to proactive
Delivering observability with Datadog
Get in touch
Find out about observability specialist Datadog and what our exciting new partnership means for you.
As big champions of treating observability and monitoring as core DevOps practices, we couldn't be happier to join the Datadog Partner Network. Here we take a closer look at the observability solution and explain what this partnership means for your organisation.
Meet Datadog
Adaptavist is now a Datadog partner. That means we're perfectly positioned to help if you're migrating to cloud, modernising apps, or trying to cut incident time.
Datadog is the go-to solution for infrastructure monitoring, app performance monitoring, log management, and real-user monitoring, all integrated and automated. With Datadog in your pack, you get real-time observability and security for your entire tech stack.
Why is this so important? It accelerates your digital transformation and cloud migration, enabling faster time-to-market and reduced mean-time-to-resolution. It breaks down silos between dev, ops, security, and business teams, driving better collaboration. And it keeps your apps and infrastructure secure while giving you deeper insights into user behaviour and key business metrics to inform decision-making.
Datadog is an observability specialist
Observability is about more than just monitoring. It’s understanding what’s happening inside your complex systems by analysing the signals they emit. Datadog specialises in this, focusing on depth, correlation, and real-time insights – and crucially natively connecting everything that matters.
Its unified platform brings together the three pillars of observability – metrics, logs, and traces – to answer the following questions:
- What's happening right now?: Datadog captures CPU, request rates, and queue depth, which lets you take a real-time pulse of your system's health and performance.
- What exactly happened?: Using application, infrastructure, system, security, and audit logs, Datadog helps you understand why something went wrong (not just that it did).
- Where’s the problem?: Datadog's distributed tracing lets you follow a single user request end-to-end to diagnose issues that span multiple services, APIs, databases, and teams.
Why observability matters
Digital systems are no longer simple, predictable, or static. That’s why observability has become critical for modern organisations, where apps are distributed across cloud platforms and constantly changing. Traditional monitoring is not enough. It tells you something is wrong, but not why. And that difference has a big impact on your business.
Here are some of the strongest business drivers for observability, along with real-world examples of it in practice.
Faster problem resolution
Downtime or poor performance directly translates into lost revenue, damaged trust, and impacted teams. Observability reduces mean-time-to-resolution by giving teams immediate access to the metrics, logs, and traces they need to get things back on track. And proactive issue detection prevents potential problems before they arise.
Observability in action: if an e-commerce site experiences a spike in checkout failures, observability tools let you trace failed transactions to a specific service, database query, or third-party dependency in minutes.
Understand your user experience
Observability links backend performance to real user behaviour so organisations can see how system changes impact the people who matter most. This helps your product teams to prioritise improvements based on user experience, not their own assumptions.
Observability in action: observability tools help you identify that a slow API response is causing users to abandon onboarding.
Improved collaboration between your dev and ops teams
Observability breaks down silos between your teams, which can have a positive organisational impact. With shared dashboards, common data, and end-to-end traces, they benefit from a single source of truth.
Observability in action: when an incident occurs, there’s no finger-pointing. Teams can collaborate around real-time evidence, speeding up fixes and improving accountability.
Cost optimisation through resource visibility
Observability makes it obvious where you have underutilised resources, inefficient services, and over-provisioned infrastructure. This knowledge can help you optimise costs across the business.
Observability in action: if you can see that certain services are using disproportionate compute during peak hours, you can optimise them, reducing cloud spend without impacting performance.
Competitive advantage
With great observability comes great reliability, higher performance, and more resilient digital services – all of which can truly set you apart from your competitors.
Observability in action: if you understand your systems deeply, it's much easier to scale with confidence, plan capacity accurately, and innovate faster than your competitors.
Observability day to day – from reactive to proactive
The data from observability tools is being used by leading organisations every day to troubleshoot performance degradation, understand complex service interactions, optimise application performance, and inform scaling decisions.
The biggest shift it enables is moving from reactive firefighting to proactive operations. This creates a culture where teams anticipate issues, work diligently to improve reliability, and are able to consistently deliver high-quality digital experiences.
Delivering observability with Datadog
At Adaptavist, we prioritise understanding your business objectives through strategic consulting and technical expertise to identify the optimal, seamlessly integrated toolchain that best supports your goals. As Datadog partners, we offer faster, reliable implementations of the platform, with full integration and optimisation support.
If you're ready to do more than monitor, get in touch today to speak to one of our expert consultants. They'll discuss your unique observability challenges, the Datadog difference, and how to implement Datadog in your specific environment.
See the Datadog difference for yourself
Ready to move from reactive to proactive? Talk to one of our expert consultants today and find out how Datadog can work for your organisation.
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Security and Cloud Infrastructure Lead