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Valentin Touffet Alexandre Olivier When a customer gets paged at 3 a.m., they expect the graphs in Datadog to show the full picture of the data they sent. When an AI agent, such as one making autoscaling or remediation decisions, acts, it relies on the same assumption. At Datado…
Arnold Wakim When the storage backend for Stream Router hit hard limits, we needed to redesign its data model and migrate it to a new storage architecture without disrupting live production traffic. We would not have completed the implementation in the time frame we had without…
Shree Sampath Gamedays are one of the most effective ways we proactively uncover gaps in our systems and processes. At Datadog, we regularly run a variety of gamedays to intentionally stress our platforms and learn how our systems and teams respond under real-world conditions. T…
Julien Doutre Adrien Peronnet D Niu Christoph Hamsen Callan Lamb Kassen Qian Tesnim Hamdouni Attackers are increasingly targeting the software supply chain, compromising widely used dependencies to distribute malicious code downstream at scale. Over the past few months alone, in…
Did you find this article helpful? Further Reading Datadog Platform Datasheet Learn about the key components, capabilities, and features of the Datadog platform. Bartol Rebernjak Galen Pickard Sharing a visualization from a Datadog dashboard or notebook is simple. You can copy a…
Bartol Rebernjak Galen Pickard Sharing a visualization from a Datadog dashboard or notebook is simple. You can copy and paste a widget directly into another dashboard, message, or document. Behind the scenes, the widget is stored with a unique sharing URL, which the Datadog app…
Search and act across Datadog to resolve issues faster with Bits Assistant
Benjamin Barton We shipped a feature that made perfect sense. It improved a specific type of investigation we had been testing against. Then other investigations started getting worse. Nothing crashed. No tests failed. But the overall quality of the agent had shifted, and we had…
Integration roundup: Monitoring your modern database platforms
Anthonin Bonnefoy At Datadog, we track the life cycle of millions of ephemeral hosts that report telemetry data to our platform. When a host stops emitting data, we eventually need to clean it up to avoid bloating our metadata store. To detect inactive hosts, the Datadog team th…
Protect agentic AI applications with Datadog AI Guard
Christoph Hamsen Kylian Serrania Christophe Tafani-Dereeper Cloud Security Researcher and Advocate At Datadog, our commitment to open source means operating transparently and accepting that our repositories will be probed by adversaries. A few months ago, we shared our approach…
Meet the new Bits AI SRE: Deeper reasoning, twice as fast
Reilly Wood I work on Datadog's official MCP (Model Context Protocol) server, our first observability interface designed specifically for customers' AI agents. Our first version was a thin wrapper around existing APIs, the kind of thing you can build in a weekend. It worked well…
Pierre Gimalac Over the past few years, the Datadog Agent's artifact size has grown significantly, from 428 MiB in version 7.16.0 to a peak of 1.22 GiB in version 7.60.0 on Linux. That growth reflected years of new capabilities, broader integrations, and support for more environ…