# How DevZero migrated from Datadog in under an hour

> DevZero's co-founder and CEO, Debo Ray joined Shani Shoham and Chaitanya Sistla to break down how they evaluated observability alternatives, migrated from Datadog in under an hour, and how he redesigned their observability strategy based on lessons from Uber and DevZero.

Source: https://openobserve.ai/webinars-videos/devzero-datadog-migration/
Published: 2026-04-15
Authors: Debo Ray, Chaitanya Sistla, Shani Shoham
Duration: 45 minutes

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## What you'll learn

- How to migrate from Datadog to OpenObserve in under an hour, including dashboards, alerts, and telemetry data, without disrupting production systems
- Why traditional observability tools break at scale, from unpredictable costs to performance bottlenecks, and how to reduce operational overhead while improving visibility
- What a modern observability stack looks like in practice, including OpenTelemetry adoption, unified logs/metrics/traces, and faster debugging with simplified querying

DevZero's co-founder and CEO, Debo Ray joined Shani Shoham and Chaitanya Sistla to break down how they evaluated observability alternatives, migrated from Datadog in under an hour, and how he redesigned their observability strategy based on lessons from Uber and DevZero.

## Resources

- [Quick Start](https://openobserve.ai/docs/getting-started/)