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Sometimes You’re The Datadog, Sometimes You’re The Hydrant

Sometimes You’re The Datadog, Sometimes You’re The Hydrant

How Datadog became a leader in observability

Aug 13, 2020 · 8 min readUpdated Sep 10, 2026

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When the media covers companies created by technology, names like Apple, Uber and Slack come up. But what usually doesn't get covered is that behind a new generation of SaaS and social apps is a new generation of infrastructure tools and services that support them. You may not know what they do, but companies like Elastic, Fastly and Crowdstrike are just as important to the tech ecosystem as the ones you interact with every day.

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