Why 2016 is the year of monitoring at scale

This article explains the founding vision of Datadog, built on the prediction that modern IT infrastructure would become significantly more complex due to the rise of Agile development and cloud computing. Datadog was designed to address this increased complexity, specifically the exponential growth in infrastructure units, code changes, interacting engineers, and diverse technologies. The authors believe 2016 marked the beginning of an era of "Monitoring at Scale" as cloud adoption accelerated and traditional monitoring tools became insufficient.