Datadog release discovery

User Story

As the Platform Managers of Datadog, It is our team's responsibility for understanding when update releases are planned for the tool, and what features are contained within each update, So that we can make informed decisions on when the upgrades would benefit the Datadog tool users and what the impact would be for implementing these updates.

Issue Description

Datadog releases new features and functionality many times per month. Some of it is relevant to us, some of it isn't. It would be good to read through the new releases periodically and report on any updates or features that are relevant to monitoring VA.gov.

Release page for DD Govcloud: https://vagov.ddog-gov.com/release-notes

Thoughts:

Review the release notes quarterly? Monthly? Recently, there have been 3-4 releases per month, so a monthly cadence might be more manageable?
Report findings during Platform Demo? CoP meetings? Slack message (with or without screenshots or a video, if necessary)?
An epic (Datadog Release Radar? 😄) could be created with tickets assigned to sprints throughout the year.
I think reviewing the release notes and sharing findings should be no more than a 3 amount of work (i.e. I don't think we should spend much time on this, but we do want occasional eyes on the new releases and to share what we learn).

Tasks

[ ] Look at Release Notes page and determine what cadence reviewing the updates makes sense
[ ] Determine how we want to deliver these findings (it can always be changed later if we find a better forum for delivery).
[ ] Create an Epic with tickets inside covering the next 6-12 months of future releases.

Success Metrics

[ ] Established cadence for updating DataDog releases
[ ] Have Epic with tickets covering the next 6-12 months of future releases.

Acceptance Criteria

[ ] New tickets are created and placed in an Epic and assigned sprints based on the determined cadence.

Validation

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department-of-veterans-affairs / va.gov-team