Failure is inevitable: Learning from a large outage, and building for reliability in depth at
Datadog ditched its ānever failā mindset after a March 2023 meltdown knocked out half its Kubernetes nodes and took major user features down with them. The fix? A full-stack rethink built aroundgraceful degradation. The team addeddisk-based persistence at intake,live-data prioritization,QoS-aware re.. read more Ā





















