Messy tagging slows down troubleshooting, clutters dashboards, and makes alerts unreliable. In Part 2, we’re tackling the biggest mistakes—over-tagging, inconsistent naming, and skipping Unified Service Tagging—plus how to fix them.

We received a lot of great questions in our webinar. Hopefully, this post helps answer those questions and provide even more detail than we could cover.

Woah now, hold on a second - get your mouse away from that “New Dashboard” button, we’ve got a few things to talk about first. Clearly you’re well on your way to using Datadog.

TL;DR: If your Datadog tags are messy, your observability is messy. Stop overcomplicating it—use layers, keep it practical, and only tag what matters.

Service Level Objectives (SLOs) sound simple—define what good service looks like, measure it, and call it a day. But getting them right is tricky.

Before we take the idea of observability and what it is off the rails, we should probably start with the boring definition of it just so we’re all on the same page.

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