Case Study: Datadog achieves zero performance impact with Fastly Next-Gen WAF

Datadog Scaling Security Where Performance is Critical with Signal Sciences

Datadog, a monitoring and security platform for cloud applications, faced the challenge of scaling its application security. Their homegrown tools could not keep pace with their rapid growth and modern CI/CD pipelines, requiring a WAF that offered flexibility without consuming excessive resources or needing constant tuning. They chose the Fastly Next-Gen WAF from Signal Sciences to address these needs.

The Signal Sciences solution provided immediate protection without the performance issues common with legacy WAFs. It required no tuning or maintenance, allowing the security team to focus on other priorities. Datadog reported zero performance impact on its applications and zero false positives that could affect legitimate user traffic, enabling them to maintain their rapid deployment schedule without any security-related slowdowns.

Datadog

Douglas DePerry

Director of Defense