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Observable platformswith evidence under pressure

Metrics, logs, traces, and cost in one model, Datadog-led, with AWS and Azure native depth where your estate needs it.

Platform assurance across delivery, observability, and resilience

  • Governed delivery
  • Cloud observability
  • Resilience testing

What cloud observability delivers

One investigation front door with ownership, SLOs, and reporting leadership can use in reviews and incidents.

Unified investigation

Metrics, logs, and traces in one operational model instead of console hopping per cloud.

Alerts with ownership

Paging, SLOs, and runbooks wired to teams accountable for fix and follow-up.

Multi-cloud native depth where required

Platform logs, application telemetry, and audit or access evidence from AWS and Azure integrated into Datadog without losing the investigation experience.

Cost and AI visibility

Spend, API latency, and LLM traces aligned to the environments your platform team operates.

When visibility fragments across tools and clouds

Incidents start with guesswork when signals live in silos and alerts do not match who actually operates production.

Signals live in silos

Metrics, logs, and traces sit in different consoles per cloud and team, so incidents start with guesswork.

Alerts lack ownership

Paging rules, SLOs, and runbooks do not line up with who operates AWS and Azure workloads day to day.

Cost and performance drift

Leaders see spend or latency spikes without a clear link to the services, releases, or tenants driving them.

AI and APIs need deeper traces

New chatbot, API, and automation paths need LLM and dependency visibility beyond basic infrastructure charts.

One observability outcome, anchored on Datadog

We standardise investigation and reporting on Datadog, and map what already lands in CloudWatch and Azure diagnostics, what must stream or archive, and what should correlate in one model for your estate.

Datadog as the operational front door

Unified metrics, logs, traces, monitors, and dashboards with service maps and ownership tags buyers recognise.

Cloud-native telemetry where it belongs

AWS compute, network, and data paths through CloudWatch and X-Ray, plus Azure diagnostics and App Insights-style application telemetry, folded into the same incident and capacity story in Datadog.

Incident and SLO discipline

On-call routing, burn-rate alerts, and post-incident evidence that connect signals to accountable teams.

AI and platform cost visibility

LLM observability, API latency, and cloud cost views aligned to the same tags and environments you operate.

From fragmented signals to observability evidence

Expand each block to review observability scope, fit signals, outcomes, sibling programmes, and the staged approach across Datadog with AWS and Azure native sources.

What we put in place.

Implementation

We scope tagging, monitors, SLOs, incident routing, and integrated AWS and Azure native feeds so investigation stays in Datadog as the operational front door.

TAGGED OBSERVABILITY MODEL

Metrics, logs, and traces with ownership tags across AWS and Azure estates you operate.

MONITORS, DASHBOARDS, AND SLOS

Paging, burn-rate alerts, and runbooks wired to teams accountable for fix and follow-up.

AWS AND AZURE NATIVE INTEGRATION

Platform logs, application telemetry, and audit or access evidence from AWS and Azure folded into Datadog without duplicate console sprawl.

AI AND COST VISIBILITY

LLM traces, API latency, and spend views aligned to the environments your platform team operates.

This is for you if...

Fit

If several signals below reflect how your team operates production, an observability path may be the right next conversation.

INCIDENTS START WITH TOOL HOPPING

You need one place to investigate across AWS, Azure, and hybrid services.

SLOs AND ALERTS ARE NOT TRUSTED

You want paging, ownership, and runbooks that match how production actually runs.

YOU ARE ADDING AI OR API WORKLOADS

Traces and quality signals must cover new paths, not only legacy VMs and containers.

LEADERS NEED COST AND RISK IN ONE VIEW

Spend, performance, and compliance questions should share the same evidence base.

What you get.

Outcomes

These outcomes are what the programme is designed to deliver: one investigation model, trusted alerts, and reporting leadership can use.

TAGGED OBSERVABILITY ACROSS ESTATES

Tagged observability across estates you operate.

MONITORS AND SLOS WITH OWNERSHIP

Monitors and SLOs wired to real ownership.

INTEGRATED AWS AND AZURE FEEDS

Integrated AWS and Azure feeds without losing Datadog depth.

INCIDENT AND COST REPORTING

Incident and cost reporting for reviews and audits.

Standalone observability or ...

Paths

Observability can solve a specific signal or incident gap, or pair with governed delivery and resilience when multiple assurance questions land together.

Explore Platform Assurance overviewPlatform Assurance overview
Choose the programme that matches the pressure before you scope tooling work.

Compare observability with governed delivery and resilience testing when leadership needs one column story.

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Explore Governed DeliveryGoverned Delivery
Connect investigation to how change reaches production.

Pair observability with pipeline discipline when releases need gates and evidence in the same rhythm as signals.

Explore Governed Delivery
Explore Resilience TestingResilience Testing & Assurance
Prove performance and security before customers feel regressions.

Validate behaviour under load and controlled security testing when observability shows where to focus assurance work.

Explore Resilience Testing

How we move from fragmented signals ...

Delivery

The work is practical, scoped, and focused on an operating model your team can sustain after launch.

  1. 1

    Understand visibility gaps

    We start with incident drag, alert fatigue, cost spikes, or new AI and API paths that lack traces.

  2. 2

    Assess current telemetry

    We inventory cloud diagnostics, application telemetry, audit and access evidence, delivery change markers, and how tagging and on-call ownership map into Datadog.

  3. 3

    Design the observability model

    We define monitors, SLOs, dashboards, and integration patterns that match how you operate.

  4. 4

    Implement and validate

    We wire feeds, routing, and runbooks operators can use during real incidents.

  5. 5

    Operate and improve

    Observability becomes part of the rhythm through reviews, tuning, and cost visibility.

Tooling we shape into observability evidence

Datadog is the pane of glass for investigation. AWS and Azure native sources feed into Datadog so operators do not console-hop during incidents. Pipeline and deployment signals, including from GitLab where that is your delivery anchor, correlate in the same investigation model. For CI/CD discipline, see Governed Delivery; when signals show where to validate behaviour, pair with Resilience Testing on Platform Assurance.

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Datadog

Your operational front door: cloud, application, and delivery change signals correlated in one investigation model with metrics, logs, traces, monitors, service maps, and SLOs.

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Amazon CloudWatch

AWS platform and workload logs, metrics, and traces, including Lambda, containers, VPC flow, and X-Ray where required, integrated as sources into Datadog.

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Azure Monitor

Azure metrics, logs, diagnostics, and App Insights-style application telemetry integrated as sources into the same Datadog investigation story.

Other Platform Assurance programmes

Compare sibling programmes when more than one assurance question is in play.

Governed Delivery

CI/CD, security checks, runner strategy, approvals, and release evidence across GitLab, Azure DevOps, and AWS CodePipeline.

Explore Governed Delivery

Resilience Testing & Assurance

Functional automation, performance testing, and penetration testing with evidence for production readiness.

Explore Resilience Testing

Operate with observability evidence your teams and stakeholders can act on

Tell us where fragmented signals or weak on-call discipline is blocking confidence. We will shape an observability path led on Datadog with platform, application, and audit-style telemetry from AWS and Azure integrated where required.