Avoid errors and improve data quality in DataDog

Digital Analytics

Datadog provides comprehensive observability across your infrastructure, applications, and logs. However, misconfigured integrations, missing error attributes, or delayed alerts can lead to data discrepancies and hinder incident response. Trackingplan addresses these challenges by automatically monitoring and validating your Datadog setup, ensuring data integrity without requiring direct access to your Datadog account or other analytics destinations.

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COMMON PROBLEMS

Most common mistakes when using DataDog

Incomplete Error Attribute Configuration

Challenge: Essential error attributes like error.message, error.type, or error.stack are missing or misconfigured.

Impact: Prevents errors from being properly tracked and grouped, leading to gaps in error monitoring and delayed issue resolution.

Delayed or Missing Alerts

Challenge: Alerts are not set up correctly or fail to trigger in a timely manner.

Impact: Leads to delayed awareness of critical issues, increasing mean time to resolution and potential downtime.

Inconsistent Tagging Across Services

Challenge: Tags used for categorizing and filtering data are inconsistent or missing.

Impact: Makes it difficult to correlate metrics, logs, and traces, hindering root cause analysis.

Overwhelming Noise from Unfiltered Logs

Challenge: Lack of proper log filtering and aggregation leads to excessive noise.

Impact: Important issues may be overlooked amidst the clutter, reducing the effectiveness of monitoring efforts.

Privacy Compliance Issues

Challenge: Sensitive data is collected without proper masking or consent mechanisms.

Impact: Risks non-compliance with regulations like GDPR, potentially leading to legal consequences.

Automated Error Attribute Validation

Continuously checks for the presence and correct configuration of essential error attributes across your services.

Real-Time Alert Monitoring

Verifies that alerts are set up correctly and triggers are functioning as intended, ensuring timely notifications.

Tag Consistency Checks

Monitors tagging across services to ensure consistency, facilitating effective data correlation and analysis.

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Privacy Compliance Assurance

Detects unauthorized data collection, helping you stay compliant with privacy regulations by preventing personal data leaks.

HOW TRACKINGPLAN HELPS

How Trackingplan solves your problems with DataDog

Trackingplan ensures your Datadog monitoring is accurate and reliable, enhancing your observability and incident response.

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Support

Frequently asked questions about DataDog

Why are some errors not appearing in Datadog’s Error Tracking?

Errors may fail to appear if critical error attributes (such as error type, message, or context) are missing or misconfigured in your tracking setup. Trackingplan continuously audits your error tracking configurations, identifies these gaps, and alerts you, ensuring that all relevant errors are captured and visible in Datadog.

How does Trackingplan help with privacy compliance?

By monitoring your error tracking setup, Trackingplan detects any collection of unauthorized personal data, helping you maintain compliance with privacy laws and avoid data leaks.

Can Trackingplan integrate with other monitoring tools?

Absolutely. Trackingplan is designed to complement any observability stack by working independently of your data destinations, enabling seamless integration and comprehensive monitoring across all your tools.

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Because life’s too short for tedious data work

Pablo Urueña

Digital Analytics Manager

Trackingplan is the eye that sees everything, delivering value even in areas outside our responsibilities."

Bert Reila

Digital Analytics Manager

"Using Trackingplan for our team translates to saving significant resources—both time and money."

Álvaro Salmerón

Digital Analytics Consultant

“Before Trackingplan, we spent around five to six hours per project every month just debugging."

Our results in numbers

Achieve more by getting rid of manual processes and validations

From weeks to hours

Reduction of measurement error resolution time

90%

Hours saved per month per FTE

30h

Reduction in data errors in reports

80%

Improvement in campaign performance

15%

Efficiency increase in marketing automation

25%

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