Is It Broken Everywhere or Just for Me with Omri Sass

About this episode

Omri Sass discusses updog.ai, a tool for monitoring cloud service outages and its development process.

When your website stops working at 3 AM, you need to answer one question fast: Is it my code or is a big cloud provider having problems? Omri Sass from Datadog explains updog.ai, a tool that monitors whether major services like AWS, CloudFlare, and others are actually working. Instead of asking people to report problems like Down Detector does, updog uses real data from thousands of computers to detect when services go down. Omri shares why this took 6 years to build, how they process massive amounts of data with machine learning, and why cloud providers have been strangely upset about these tools existing. About Omri: Omri Sass is a Director of Product Management at Datadog, where he leads and supports a team of 25+ product managers driving initiatives across Bits AI SRE, Data Observability, Service Management, and most recently, the launch of updog.ai. Outside of work, Omri is an avid sci-fi reader, a dedicated yoga practitioner, and happily outmatched by his cat. Show Highlights: (02:12) What is Updog and How Does It Work (03:38) Why Knowing If It's a Global Problem Matters (04:01) The Problem With Testing Every Endpoint Yourself (05:52) How Datadog Discovered EC2 Outages From…

People in this episode

Host: Corey Quinn

Guest: Omri Sass

Topics covered

• website monitoring
• cloud services
• incident management
• machine learning
• data observability

Keywords

• website outages
• cloud provider issues
• monitoring tools
• data processing
• incident response

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Datadog, AWS, CloudFlare

Products: updog.ai

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