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Home » News » Datadog Acquires App Dev Testing Platform Madumbo

Datadog Acquires App Dev Testing Platform Madumbo

Avatar photoBy: Mike Vizard on February 13, 2019 1 Comment

Datadog announced it is extending its reach beyond IT monitoring to include application testing by acquiring Madumbo.

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Madumdo CEO Gabriel-James Safar said it’s become increasingly apparent that application testing needs to be more informed by the metrics gathered by IT monitoring tools. The combined Datadog/Madumbo will bring intelligence to automated testing processes using both application and infrastructure data gathered via the Datadog platform.

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The Madumbo platform already makes extensive use of machine learning algorithms and predictive analytics to inject artificial intelligence (AI) into the application testing process. The more data those algorithms can access, the more precise the AI models become over time.

That approach made it possible for Madumbo to build a bot that checks for errors using code running on a real browser, which Safar said means DevOps teams can capture the same defects as they are experienced by end users. That’s critical because much time is wasted by IT organizations that are unable to prioritize tasks to either identify the root cause of a problem or, arguably more importantly, prevent issues in the first place, said Safar. Because of that issue most organizations lack the time required to develop best-in-class DevOps processes.

Datadog provides a complimentary set of IT monitoring tools that are consumed as a software-as-a-service (SaaS) application. That data will then become a trusted source for Madumbo, which in turn will increase confidence in the AI recommendations being made by Madumbo, said Safar.

How many of those customers will wind up replacing whatever application testing tools they currently employ with Madumbo remains to be seen. But if Datadog can provide a more efficient approach to testing, testing tools may wind up driving organizations to replace their monitoring tools. Most organizations spend an inordinate amount of time trying to correlate data across tens of monitoring tools that often generate either conflicting alerts or alerts about issues the IT organization has already been informed of by another tool. Most IT organizations eventually will see the rise of AI platforms that will drive consolidation across the entire DevOps tools category.

In the meantime, the more issues that get addressed during the application development process, the fewer number of problems that will raise their ugly head in production environments. In fact, it’s arguable the whole point of investing in best-in-class DevOps processes is not just to roll out applications faster, but also make sure those applications are of a markedly higher quality than previous generations of applications. That’s not going to happen, however, unless DevOps teams can derive actionable intelligence from the millions of alerts that get generated up and down the IT stack.

— Mike Vizard

Filed Under: AI, Application Performance Management/Monitoring, Blogs, News Tagged With: acquisition, application development, application testing, artificial intelligence, Datadoag, m&A, machine learning, Madumbo

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