Universal Service Monitoring

Feature Overview

Datadog Universal Service Monitoring (USM) uses eBPF technology to give you instant visibility into the health of your entire fleet of services—without requiring you to change a single line of code. By automatically discovering, mapping, and monitoring every service and dependency, USM allows you to detect issues faster, standardize monitoring best practices across all teams, and centralize all the knowledge about your services in a single place.

Automatically discover and map all services

Eliminate system blindspots by automatically discovering all your services, whether first- or third-party, without touching any code
Reduce mean time to detection through effortless dependency mapping, powered by eBPF technology
Achieve broader, real-time visibility of your system architecture across all runtimes, programming languages, and frameworks you use

Monitor the health of every service consistently

Gain instant visibility into the health of every service and deployment through real-time RED metrics and correlated telemetry
Improve application reliability and remove silos between teams and technologies by rolling out consistent SLOs across dependent services
Catch issues when they arise in any service through out-of-the-box visualizations and alerting on all services

Centralize service knowledge with Software Catalog

Streamline collaboration during incidents by enriching services with relevant owners, runbooks, source code, and on-call contact information
Drive operational excellence by standardizing monitoring best practices across all engineering teams
Increase engineering velocity by providing teams visibility into real-time performance and reliability indicators to complete projects and migrations confidently

Extend service monitoring to root cause analyses with the APM suite

Spot and resolve issues even faster by collecting end-to-end distributed traces and correlating them with the rest of your observability data
Further empower engineers to quickly pinpoint and address root causes in applications with always-on code profiling and query-level database monitoring
Improve end-user experience by tying in backend service telemetry with real-user journeys and code-free synthetic tests