Introducing Live Process monitoring in Datadog
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Introducing Live Process monitoring in Datadog


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This article details how Netflix improved the efficiency of collecting and processing live process metrics by 100x. They achieved this by moving from collecting full traces to sampling key data points and aggregating them at the source, reducing data volume and computational load. This allowed for faster insights and improved observability of their critical systems without impacting performance.
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