What’s Updog? Datadog’s New Tool Tells You Which Apps Are Down

What’s Updog? Datadog’s new tool tells you which apps are down with real-time AI-powered outage tracking.
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What’s Updog? Datadog’s New Tool Tells You Which Apps Are Down
Cloud monitoring and security platform Datadog has taken an internet meme and turned it into something genuinely useful. What’s Updog? Datadog’s new tool tells you which apps are down , offering a free, AI-powered dashboard that lets users instantly check the status of popular online services like AWS, Slack, Cloudflare, and OpenAI. Image Credits:Olga Zarzycka / 500px / Getty Images The web dashboard, called Updog , is Datadog’s playful yet practical answer to an age-old joke: “What’s up, dog?” Now, developers and users alike can simply check Updog to see if their favorite SaaS providers are up—or down. Datadog’s Fun Twist on Serious Monitoring Datadog clearly leaned into the humor behind its branding. It all started when software engineer Rhys Sullivan joked on X (formerly Twitter), “You’re telling me Datadog has an uptime monitoring product and they didn’t call it ‘Updog’?” Four months later, Datadog engineer Tim Brown responded with a link to the real thing: Updog is live . This lightheart…