Public Sector IT teams must ensure uptime, optimize performance, and quickly diagnose issues across complex infrastructures. Site Reliability Engineers (SREs) analyze vast amounts of logs, metrics, and traces to detect anomalies, troubleshoot incidents, and maintain compliance while minimizing disruptions. Without a strong observability strategy, critical issues may go unnoticed until they impact end users. Datadog’s observability platform helps SREs gain full observability, offering a unified view across infrastructure, applications, and network performance.

In this virtual hands-on workshop led by Datadog Solutions Engineers, attendees learned how to:

• Instrument multiple services in a web application to enable Application Performance Monitoring (APM) for distributed tracing and code-level profiling

• Filter and analyze logs and Network Performance Monitoring (NPM) data to detect performance bottlenecks and security anomalies

• Create proactive monitors that alert you to anomalies in key metrics 

• Build a custom dashboard to visualize critical telemetry for real-time decision-making

At the end of the workshop, attendees are able to leverage Datadog to strengthen system reliability, accelerate incident response, and maintain compliance with operational requirements in public sector environments.