Tag: Observability

Implementing Datadog in iOS: A SwiftUI vs UIKit Perspective

I’ve been diving deep into implementing Datadog in iOS applications and wanted to share my experience with both SwiftUI and UIKit approaches and the related elements of the work. Let’s break this down into what works, what doesn’t, and why you might choose various options when using Datadog (or deciding not to use Datadog).

The Setup

First things first, you’ll need these Datadog SDK packages:

dependencies: [
    .package(url: "https://github.com/DataDog/dd-sdk-ios", from: "2.27.0")
]
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Reading Up on Observability and Monitoring

In the next few weeks I’ll be doing some work for Honeycomb.io. In preparation I’ve been ramping up on a number of topics, namely the big one is the specific differences in things like observability and monitoring. The aside that makes this relatively easy, is I live and breath this space from a site reliability, apps, and services perspective. Not only am I fortunate in my situation to dive into this topic, I’m excited to do so as well.

I started this research just checking out what material Honeycomb.io has available onsite and additionally what Charity Majors has written, or spoken about at conferences. The first two were easy to find with a simple Google search and checking out the Honeycomb.io Blog. For each of these materials I’ve provided a summary before each linked reference. Enjoy. Continue reading “Reading Up on Observability and Monitoring” →