Observability Health Check
A fast check of your Datadog environment.
- Agents
- Tagging
- Monitors
- Dashboards
- Access
- Cost
Observability assessment.Know where you stand.
Get an honest picture of your monitoring estate and a prioritized plan for what to fix first, before you invest further.
Why it matters
Before you invest more, know what you already have.
Few teams can say what their monitoring really covers, which alerts matter or where the budget goes. An assessment answers that first, so the next investment lands where it counts.
Suitable for
- 01Organizations planning a Datadog rollout or expansion
- 02Teams taking over an existing monitoring environment
- 03Estates where alert noise or cost keeps rising
- 04Leaders who need a clear view of observability maturity
Ways to start
As quick or as deep as you need.
Maturity Assessment
Your whole observability estate, scored.
- 10 dimensions
- 5-level model
- Roadmap
Targeted reviews
One question, answered in depth.
- Roadmap
- Cost
- Migration readiness
- Security posture
- Multi-cloud
How we assess
Ten dimensions. Five levels. One plan.
The Maturity Assessment scores your estate on ten dimensions and places you on our five-level model, then shows what it takes to reach the next level.
- Level 1 Reactive Customers find issues first.
- Level 2 Foundational Monitoring in silos, noisy alerts.
- Level 3 Integrated One platform, shared tags, first SLOs.
- Level 4 Proactive Alerts fire before customers notice.Where most teams aim
- Level 5 Optimized Observability as code, data-driven decisions.
- Tool landscape
- Coverage
- Data quality
- Alerting & incident response
- Dashboards
- SLOs & reliability
- Governance
- People & culture
- Process
- Business alignment
Level 1Level 5
What you walk away with
A clear picture and a plan you can act on.
A scorecard
Where you stand, dimension by dimension.
A prioritized plan
What to fix first, and why.
A readout with your team
Findings in business terms. You keep the decisions.
FAQ
Assessment questions.
What does it cost?
Every assessment has a fixed scope and a fixed fee, agreed before we start. The first 30-minute conversation to scope it is complimentary.
Do you only assess Datadog?
No. The maturity assessment covers your whole observability estate, including the other tools you use today. The health check focuses on your Datadog environment.
Do we need to be a Datadog customer already?
No. Many organizations use an assessment and roadmap to decide how to adopt Datadog, which products to prioritize and what the investment looks like.
What access do you need?
Read-only access to the platforms in scope and time with the teams who run them. We work under an NDA from the start.
What happens after the assessment?
You keep the scorecard, the gap analysis and the prioritized plan. If you want help acting on it, we can take you into implementation or configuration work, but there is no obligation.
Next step
See the plan before you commit.
A complimentary 30-minute conversation about your environment, your priorities and the observability gaps worth closing first. No commitment.