We use Datadog at the medium sized unicorn I work at. People often don’t understand how important correlating timestamps is. I wish Datadog was just opinionated as hell and said everything you see is UTC by default. Or even less dramatic than that, literally just slap the time zone on whatever it is that you’re viewing. It’s so insanely critical when you’re viewing logs on a prod outage that people immediately see and understand that the logs they are looking at are PST, CST, UTC or whatever. It’s insane that software designed to help people unfuck production systems doesn’t display that by default.

As-is we go through a song and dance whenever we look at logs and metrics “oh, this happened at X time which is Y time for most people.