Case Study: Rookout achieves rapid debugging and robust observability with Datadog

Rookout's 4 favorite features in Datadog

Rookout, a rapid-debugging SaaS, needed to keep its application highly available and performant as it scaled. Running on Google Kubernetes Engine and Cloud SQL with minimal classic infrastructure, the team required better production visibility, reliable alerts, and ways to pinpoint performance bottlenecks without slowing development.

They adopted Datadog—using APM for end-to-end tracing, monitors shaped by postmortems, custom APM spans around heavy serialization code, and the Containers view for Kubernetes insight, plus a real-time integration sending Rookout data into Datadog. The outcome was faster detection and investigation of incidents, more efficient resource allocation, and Datadog becoming a core part of Rookout’s engineering toolkit for delivering a more reliable SaaS.

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Liran Haimovitch

Co-Founder and CTO