# How Datadog Monitors Its Own Infrastructure

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Published: 2026-06-18T07:11:34+00:00
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## Resource

Episode 58 of The CTO Podcast goes inside Datadog's engineering org to explore how the company monitors its own 100-terabyte infrastructure. Lucas and Luna walk through Datadog's dogfooding culture, the architectural challenges of running a monitoring platform for itself, and how the team handles alert fatigue, distributed tracing, and log ingestion at massive scale. They discuss specific tools like the Datadog Agent, the trace-agent, and the custom time-series database built in-house. The episode includes concrete numbers: 30 trillion time-series points ingested daily, 99.99 percent uptime target, and how the SRE team manages 8,000 hosts across multiple cloud providers. Tune in for a rare look at how the watcher watches itself. #Datadog #InfrastructureMonitoring #Dogfooding #SRE #Observability #TimeSeriesDatabase #DistributedTracing #AlertFatigue #CloudInfrastructure #EngineeringCulture #SiteReliabilityEngineering #DevOps #BusinessAndTechnology #FexingoBusiness #BusinessPodcast #CTO #TechnicalLeadership #Architecture Keep every episode free: buymeacoffee.com/fexingo

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