As organizations grow, they face increasing difficulty in managing their observability efforts. More teams mean more dashboards, monitors, API keys, pipelines, and custom configurations. Without a centralized view, administrators spend hours chasing down untagged resources, investigating surprise bills, and revoking dormant credentials. Governance becomes a reactive effort to reduce waste and address issues, falling short of its potential to proactively create standards and optimize observability.
Datadog Governance Console helps solve this challenge by providing a centralized interface for managing observability usage, configuration, and hygiene. Governance Console transforms your organization’s configuration and usage activity into actionable insights and automates enforcement of best practices through built-in controls. Instead of managing governance through spreadsheets and ad hoc audits, you can monitor adoption of Datadog products and features, apply guardrails, and improve accountability from a single place.
In this post, we’ll explore how Governance Console helps you:
Understand how observability is implemented across your organizationImprove Datadog product configuration and adoptionPrevent configuration drift before it creates risk
