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Deutsche Bahn Standardizes Security Telemetry on Datadog
Deutsche Bahn, an industrials organization in Germany, uses Infrastructure Monitoring from Datadog to support detection engineering for detection engineers.
Value results
| Category | Value result |
|---|---|
| Risk and compliance | Infrastructure Monitoring is the governed place detection engineers use for detection engineering |
| Risk and compliance | Fewer stalled items because security telemetry has a clear owner |
| Capability | New joiners can see how detection engineering actually runs |
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Industrials work at Deutsche Bahn spans more than one site, even when headquarters sits in Germany. Security telemetry was splitting across regional habits. Detection engineers asked for a shared way to run detection engineering without freezing local judgment.
Datadog (Infrastructure Monitoring) is what they standardized on. Datadog is an observability platform that unifies metrics, traces, logs, and security signals for cloud applications. Deutsche Bahn uses it as the system of record for security telemetry, with detection engineers as the primary operators and other groups coming in through the same queue.
Leaders get a picture they can actually walk. Teams get fewer mystery statuses. The story is about operating change, not an unpublished percentage.