Observe+ with DataDog

Observe+ with DataDog

End-to-End Observability for Startups — Faster Debugging, Better Reliability, Lower Costs Startups can’t scale what they can’t see. Our OBSERVE+ program, powered by Datadog and AWS best practices, gives founders full visibility into their infrastructure, applications, logs, AI workloads, and user behaviour — so they can ship faster and break less.

Why founders choose OBSERVE+

1. Full Visibility in Days, Not Months

We implement Datadog quickly — metrics, logs, traces, dashboards, custom instrumentation — so founders see real signals immediately.

2. Faster Debugging = Faster Shipping

We set up distributed tracing, APM, and log pipelines so your team can diagnose issues 10× faster and focus on building features instead of fighting fires.

3. Proactive Monitoring & Alerts

We create alerting and SLOs for:

  • Latency
  • Errors
  • Database performance
  • API health
  • AI inference failures
  • Background tasks
  • CPU/Memory/Network

Your team gets alerted before customers do.

4. Cost Optimisation Through Insights

Observability exposes bottlenecks and inefficiencies so you can reduce AWS spend without compromising performance.

5. AI, Serverless & Container Visibility

We set up Datadog for:

  • AWS Lambda
  • ECS Fargate
  • EC2 & Auto Scaling
  • Bedrock / OpenAI / Vector workloads
  • Event-driven architectures

6. Enterprise-Ready Reliability

Observability is a key requirement for SOC2, ISO, HIPAA, MAP, and enterprise sales — OBSERVE+ makes you audit-ready.

How OBSERVE+ Works (2–4 Week Engagement)

Phase 1: Observability Audit (Week 1)

  1. Application Review: APM, logs, metrics, error rates, SLOs.
  2. Infrastructure Review: ECS/Lambda, RDS, Dynamo, networking.
  3. AI/ML Review (Optional): Latency, model errors, token usage, retries.
  4. Gaps Identified: Missing logs, missing traces, missing dashboards, slow services.

Outcome:

A clear list of blind spots and reliability risks.

Phase 2: Datadog Foundation (Week 1–2)

  1. Agent Setup & Integrations: ECS, Lambda, RDS, API Gateway, Bedrock, Redis, Mongo, S3, CloudFront.
  2. Log Pipelines: Normalisation, enrichment, retention settings.
  3. Tracing: Distributed tracing and custom instrumentation.

Dashboards:

  • Platform health
  • API performance
  • Database insights
  • AI inference
  • Cost & usage

Outcome:

Full platform visibility in one place.

Phase 3: Monitoring, SLOs & Alerts (Week 2–3)

  1. SLO Creation: Uptime, performance, latency, reliability, AI accuracy.
  2. Alerting Framework: Critical/Warning/Notice levels
  3. Incident Response Setup: Routing, escalation, notifications (Slack, PagerDuty, Opsgenie).
  4. Error Budgets: Clear targets for engineering teams.

Outcome:

Your team sees issues early and responds before customers are impacted.

Phase 4: Cost, Performance & Reliability Roadmap (Week 3–4)

  1. Cost Insights: Which services are hot, inefficient, or overprovisioned.
  2. Performance Tuning: Caching, DB indexing, concurrency adjustments.
  3. Reliability Playbooks: Runbooks for common issues.
  4. MAP/SOC2/HIPAA Readiness: Observability baselines aligned to compliance needs.

Outcome:

A production-ready, scalable, optimised environment.