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Sync your Backstage catalog with Datadog IDP

The Datadog Software Catalog now allows users to define custom entities to model their unique application architectures beyond standard services, containers, and databases. This en…

Designing feedback loops for progressive delivery

This article argues against overly manual release processes ("babysitting") and advocates for using guardrail metrics – automated checks on key performance indicators – to enable f…

Key learnings from the 2025 State of Cloud Security study

This article clarifies the often-misunderstood shared responsibility model for cloud security. It explains that cloud providers are responsible for the *security of* the cloud itse…

Observability and FedRAMP® in Action: The VA's Mission to Deliver Reliable Digital Service

Updog.ai is a new Datadog integration that provides real-time, proactive status updates for third-party service providers. It automatically detects incidents impacting your depende…

Eliminate unnecessary costs in your Amazon S3 buckets with Datadog Storage Management

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Key learnings from the State of Containers and Serverless report

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Catch and remediate ECS issues faster with default monitors and the ECS Explorer

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Import Snowflake, Salesforce, ServiceNow, and Databricks metadata into Datadog with Reference Tables

This article advocates for enriching log data with context from the ServiceNow Configuration Management Database (CMDB) *before* sending it to Security Information and Event Manage…

This Month in Datadog - October 2025

This Datadog article highlights the challenge of justifying AI investments and ensuring responsible scaling. It explains how Datadog helps organizations connect AI costs (compute, …

Turn fragmented runtime signals into coherent attack stories with Datadog Workload Protection

This article introduces Workload Protection Findings, a new feature in Google Cloud designed to proactively identify and address runtime security risks within your applications. It…

Understand user experience through network performance with Datadog Synthetic Monitoring

This article discusses a new approach to debugging and observability by unifying frontend and backend data through retention filters. These filters allow developers to selectively …

Accelerate your Azure integration setup with guided onboarding

This article details how to use remote instrumentation to gain deeper insights into the performance and behavior of AWS Lambda functions without modifying application code. By leve…