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Tagging Strategy

RapDev is a trusted Datadog partner with an engineering team that has experience working with a wide range of customers to create scalable tagging strategies. We can help you discover the tags that will give you the most impactful insights from your Datadog monitoring efforts.

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Increase infrastructure visibility with an effective tagging strategy

The Problem

A sound tagging strategy is key to the success of any cloud transformation, regardless of the tools and platforms chosen by your company.

Manually creating tags is one of the biggest mistakes customers make in their journey into the cloud, and our team is experienced in guiding customers through the challenges of automating tag creation using cloud templates.

A sound tagging strategy is key to the success of any cloud transformation, regardless of the tools and platforms chosen by your company.

Manually creating tags is one of the biggest mistakes customers make in their journey into the cloud, and our team is experienced in guiding customers through the challenges of automating tag creation using cloud templates.

The Solution

Our engineers have years of experience in advising customers on which tags are important, how to use them, and how to automatically generate and consume them.

Tags are a powerful way to correlate data across your infrastructure so that you can generate insights for both business and engineering teams. Knowing which tags are important, which are mandatory, and which are nice to have, will make your cloud journey infinitely more scalable across all modern platforms your team adopts.

Our engineers have years of experience in advising customers on which tags are important, how to use them, and how to automatically generate and consume them.

Tags are a powerful way to correlate data across your infrastructure so that you can generate insights for both business and engineering teams. Knowing which tags are important, which are mandatory, and which are nice to have, will make your cloud journey infinitely more scalable across all modern platforms your team adopts.

How it works

Increase infrastructure visibility with an effective tagging strategy

Datadog Tagging Strategy Workshop

During our remote tagging strategy workshop, we’ll help you identify and create new tags that will help you consume the metrics most relevant to your business.

Tagging for Business Units +

We’ll help you identify and create new tags that will help you consume the metrics most relevant to your business. These are designed to:

  • Track cost across organizations
  • Monitor user behavior on your ecommerce applications
  • Identify top-performing SKUs or Pages on your applications
  • Dynamically route monitors and alerts to the correct teams
  • Roll-up application performance and cost at the leadership level
  • Identify SLAs and SLOs at the leadership level

Tagging for Engineering Teams +

Derive new engineering tags from your existing tagging methods or newly developed methods, including:

  • Leveraging existing configuration tags
  • Obtaining new tags from current tech stacks
  • Identifying a scalable tagging strategy for future Datadog application roll-outs
  • Map your infrastructure with your collected tags
  • Categorize services by function and responsible teams
  • Unify data streams to pivot between service metrics, logs and request traces
  • Assign owners to services and build informative alerts that automatically route notifications to teams
Tagging Strategy & Governance

Datadog Quickstart Workshop

Our two-day, on-site quickstart workshops can give your team the knowledge they need to more effectively implement Datadog. Your organization can get some quick wins that jumpstart your monitoring efforts.

Tagging for Engineering Teams +

Derive new engineering tags from your existing tagging methods or newly developed methods, including:

  • Leveraging existing configuration tags
  • Obtaining new tags from current tech stacks
  • Identifying a scalable tagging strategy for future Datadog application roll-outs
  • Map your infrastructure with your collected tags
  • Categorize services by function and responsible teams
  • Unify data streams to pivot between service metrics, logs and request traces
  • Assign owners to services and build informative alerts that automatically route notifications to teams
Tagging Strategy & Governance

Datadog Implementation Services

RapDev offers multi-stage Datadog implementation services to efficiently deploying monitoring across both cloud and on-premise infrastructure. With the help of RapDev engineers, you’ll be able to accelerate your rollout to quickly gain comprehensive visibility into your infrastructure.

Tagging Strategy & Governance

Datadog Integrations

The Datadog platform offers over 400 out-of-the-box integrations, but RapDev has uncovered some gaps through working with our customers. That’s why we’ve built many Datadog integrations ourselves, including SNMP Profiles, Office365, Zoom, Solaris, Nutanix, and more.

We’re continually developing new integrations to maximize the value of the platform for our customers and the Datadog community.

Tagging Strategy & Governance
Tagging Strategy & Governance
Major Incident Management

Ensure uninterrupted uptimes with self-healing workflows

Leverage AI to enable automated remediation workflows for critical issues and incidents. By using ACC to send output data to the ServiceNow instance via the MID Server and store events and metrics in the relevant database, organizations can reduce their MeanTime to Recovery (MTTR) by:

  • Auto-remediating alerts within minutes of their generation
  • Preventing over-allocation of resources by setting defined limits and thresholds
  • Minimizing human intervention and toil by automating the alert remediation process
Tagging Strategy & Governance
ChatOps

Streamline incident management with ChatOps

ChatOps integrates incident management into communication platforms like Slack, MS Teams, and ServiceNow Operator Workspace, allowing for seamless handling of critical issues. 

RapDev’s engineers specialize in automation to improve the developer experience. Embedding incident management within chat platforms through dynamic notifications enables real-time troubleshooting, continuous updates and easy internal communications during outages or MIM.

Tagging Strategy & Governance
Gen AI

Bridge critical operational gaps with GenAI

Leverage GenAI with Modern ServiceOps to enhance incident management and troubleshooting.

  • Build Private GPT Instance: Develop and deploy a private GPT instance tailored to your organization's needs.
  • Automate Root Cause Analysis: Incorporate GenAI within your existing Major Incident Management (MIM) process to automate root cause determination and analysis, improving the speed and accuracy of identifying issues.
  • Instant Incident Summaries: Utilize GenAI to instantly generate summarized details of incoming incidents.
  • Automated Responses: Send responses from GenAI to the ChatOps engine, including incident summaries and tailored troubleshooting ideas for specific outages.
Tagging Strategy & Governance
Service Level Agreement

Guaranteed SLAs

Managed Datadog guarantees an extensive list of SLAs to ensure you’re getting the most out of your Datadog environment and adhering to best practices.

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KPI
Definition
SLA
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Cost
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Usage Tracker Report
Weekly report delivery to customer
1 report/ week
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Cost Runaway
>10% increase over 8hr period
>10%
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APM Indexed Spans
>10% increase in 8hr period
>10%
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Custom Metric Alloted Usage
Action on >90% Custom Metric Alloted usage
<90%
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Custom Metric On-Demand Usage
Action on On-Demand Custom Metric
<0%
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Custom Metric MoM growth
Sustained MoM growth
<10%
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Unused Custom Metric
Identify top 100 unused metric by cost & by indexed count
Top 100
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Log Index Spike
>10% log index spike within a 24hr period
<10%
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Log Index MoM Increase
>10% log index MoM growth
<10%
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Billing Tagging
Billing associated to a team or app
95%
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Hygiene
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Platform Governance Report
Weekly report delivery
1 report/ week
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Agent Update
Agents updated to latest version
2 updates/ year
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Stale Dashboard
Stale Dashboard (180 days since last view) review & removal
100%
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Monitors Muted
95% muted monitors review & remediate
95%
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Monitors w. No Notification
95% no notification monitors review & remediate
95%
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Monitors Not Fired
95% monitors not fired review & remediate
95%
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Security
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Public Dashboard
Review Public Dashboard & remove on approval
100%
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Unscoped App Key
Review & action on all unscoped App keys 
100%
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Stale API Key
Review & action on all unscoped API keys
100%
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Scale
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Monthly Usage Review
Platform usage review
1 meeting/ month
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Chat & Support
Chat & Customer Support Portal Access
4 hour response time
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Dashboard Creation
Up to 5 dashboards/ month w. 10 widgets
5 dashboards /month
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Monitor Creation
Up to 10 monitors/ month w. 2 metrics
10 monitors/ month
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Office Hours
2 hours
2 hours/ week
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Tag Strategy Adherence
Tags adhere to Tagging Standard
90%
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Log Pipeline Creation
Create up to 2 log pipeline/ month w. up to 10 processors
2 pipelines/ month

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