Evolving our real-time timeseries storage again: Built in Rust for performance at scale

Datadog just dropped its 6th-gen real-time timeseries engine: RTDB. It's built in Rust, sharded per core, and backed by LSM trees that don’t blink under pressure.

The secret sauce? A custom storage engine called Monocle—optimized for high-cardinality chaos and bursty workloads. It’s pulling 60x faster ingestion and 5x faster queries out of the box.

System shift: Moving to per-core shards and async-first everything signals a full send toward partitioned concurrency, modular reuse, and thread-safe, lock-free scaling.