Cloud monitoring and security platform Datadog has solved an age-old joke: what’s updog?

Datadog’s answer is not, “Not much, you?” Rather, the company launched a web dashboard that shows developers the status of dozens of services and tools like AWS, Cloudflare, OpenAI, and Slack — essentially letting them check whether major software providers are functioning properly. The tool is free, so anyone can check Updog to find out if major SaaS providers are up… dog.

Datadog clearly had fun with this branding, as they should. Rhys Sullivan, a software engineer, said in an X post in June, “you’re telling me that datadog has an uptime monitoring product and they didn’t call it ‘updog’?”

Four months later, Datadog engineer Tim Brown replied, “here you go,” and linked to the newly launched Up

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