From “What’s Slow?” to “Why It’s Slow”: Solving App Performance Issues at the Code and Query Level

When your application is running slowly or breaking in production, it’s rarely enough to just know that something’s wrong. You need to understand where the issue is coming from - and, more importantly, why. 

While distributed tracing helps pinpoint which service, endpoint, and dependencies are affected, it often stops short of revealing the underlying root cause. Is a CPU spike, memory leak, or inefficient query slowing down your app?

Pinpointing the root cause of latency or resource usage in production is hard. In this session, you’ll learn how to connect code-level performance and database behavior directly to the services and traces you're already monitoring. We’ll show you how Datadog Continuous Profiler and Database Monitoring help surface CPU bottlenecks, memory spikes, lock contention, and inefficient queries so you can resolve issues faster without needing to reproduce them.

• Resolve incidents faster with code and database telemetry linked directly to your traces

• Improve latency and reduce cloud spend by identifying performance bottlenecks

• Find the real root cause without guesswork, whether you're debugging or tuning performance