Datadog SaaS App Unifies IT Management Dashboards

Grazed from IT Business Edge. Author: Michael Vizard.

An IT organization of any size spends a lot of time looking at myriad dashboards tied to specific products and services in the hope that some larger truth will eventually make itself apparent. Of course, that rarely happens, which is why Datadog, a provider of a software-as-a-service (SaaS) application for monitoring and analyzing IT infrastructure resources, has released Screenboards to unify the key performance indicators for IT organizations under a single set of dashboards.

According to Datadog CEO Olivier Pomel, the problem most organizations experience is that when it comes to managing IT, every new product added comes with a new set of tools for managing it. That creates not only a challenge in terms of all the people needed to manage all those different technologies, it requires IT organizations to dedicate IT infrastructure to run each of those tools…

Screenboards reduces the need for all those different tools by allowing IT organizations to track key performance indicators across multiple classes of products. That’s key, says Pomel, because rather than standing around blaming each other when there is a problem, IT organizations can more easily see the relationship between different products in terms of how, for example, changes in configurations are affecting the performance of a specific application service…

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