Alerting Best Practices | Customer Story | Platform Engineering

🏆 Win a free ticket to DASH26! We’re hosting an on-site raffle where the grand prize is a ticket to Datadog’s annual conference in New York City.

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All talks will be presented in English, to ensure that as many people as possible can participate and engage at this event.

If you want to attend, please RSVP to secure your spot - this will make organizing easier. Thank you so much ♥️

Location: The-B Berlin, Revaler Str. 32, 10245 Berlin
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🏠 18:00 - Arrival: Networking, Drinks & Snacks (30 min.)
Grab yourself snacks & drinks and say hello to everybody else!

📅 18:30 - Introduction & What's new at Datadog? (15 min.)
🎙️Speaker: Marcel Drechsler, User Group Leader & Product Owner Internal Developer Platform @ andsafe

Introduction into the evening and highlights of Datadog's recent new features and products.

📅 18:45 - Powering Platform Engineering through Datadog (30 min.)
🎙️Speaker: Marcel Drechsler, User Group Leader & Product Owner Internal Developer Platform @ andsafe

In the rapidly changing landscape of Platform Engineering, Datadog has evolved from a monitoring tool into a comprehensive foundation for Internal Developer Platforms (IDPs). This session explores the journey of scaling observability and security into a unified platform strategy that reduces developer friction. We will dive into how Datadog’s expanding ecosystem provides the essential building blocks for modern self-service infrastructure. Attendees will learn how to leverage these integrated features to build a more resilient and transparent developer experience. Discover how to transform your Datadog instance into a strategic asset for your platform’s success.

📅 19:15 - Logs as a First-Class Citizen - How Lightspeed Commerce evolved logs to unlock the full power of Datadog
(30 min.)
🎙️Speaker: Rein Martha, Staff Software Engineer, Lightspeed Commerce

When Lightspeed started with Datadog, we didn't begin with traces or metrics — we began with evolving our logs. Raw, unstructured, and full of noise. The first step was making them worth keeping: trimming duplicates, removing what no one ever read, and transforming what remained into structured, queryable signals.

That foundation changed everything. Once logs became first-class — with clean attributes, consistent structure, and a clear purpose for every line — the rest of the observability stack followed naturally. Monitors built on log queries. Dashboards that actually meant something on incidents. Metrics generated directly from log attributes, giving us long-term retention without the cost of keeping everything raw.

📅 19:45 - Best Practices for Alerting with Datadog (30 min.)
🎙️Speaker: Santiago Gomez Saez, Datadog ambassador & Principal Cloud Architect @ dxone

Operational excellence is the main objective of SRE teams. Focusing on alerting, this talk shares common pitfalls and best practices on how and when to alert when incidents occur. In addition, we show how to self-heal in some cases requiring no manual intervention.

🥗 20:15 - Drinks, Food & Networking
Enjoy refreshments while networking with community peers!

👋 21:00 - Goodbye, see you next time!