How Datadog saves over $1 million each month by optimizing AI usage
Datadog achieved over $1 million in monthly AI cost savings by "rightsizing" model configurations, such as migrating from Claude Opus to Sonnet and adjusting tool effort levels. By…
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Golden Paths for AI agents: What changes when platform users aren’t human?
To accommodate the rise of AI agents, platform teams must evolve "Golden Paths" from human-centric workflows into structures that support autonomous execution patterns, such as low…
Monitor Azure Functions across every hosting plan with Datadog
Datadog has expanded its observability for Azure Functions by introducing a Serverless Compatibility Layer that enables telemetry collection across all hosting plans and runtimes. …
Control trace volume with OpenTelemetry tail-based sampling
OpenTelemetry tail-based sampling reduces observability costs and trace volume by selectively retaining high-value data, such as errors and latency spikes, after a trace completes.…
From signals to systemic risk: Building Risk AI
Datadog has developed a Systemic Risk Detection Pipeline and Risk AI Agents to shift security focus from isolated findings to interconnected "risk paths" that pose the greatest org…
Detect vulnerabilities in LLM applications with Datadog’s AI-native SAST
Datadog Code Security’s AI-native SAST addresses the unique security risks of LLM applications, such as prompt injection and excessive agency, which traditional pattern-based tools…
20× the CI traffic without getting slower: How we rebuilt Git serving at Datadog
To handle the massive Git traffic and high CPU load caused by large monorepos and AI coding agents, Datadog developed "gitretriever," a decentralized system of independent Git mirr…
How CISA’s BOD 26-04 changes vulnerability prioritization
CISA’s BOD 26-04 mandates that federal agencies prioritize vulnerability remediation based on specific risk factors, such as asset exposure and exploitability, to counter increasin…
Trace AWS Lambda durable functions with Datadog
Datadog’s Node.js and Python tracers for the AWS Lambda Durable Execution SDK enable seamless, cross-invocation tracing for long-running, multi-step workflows. By stitching togethe…
Centralize human and agentic work with Datadog Work Management
Datadog Work Management provides a centralized platform to track operational tasks from humans, automations, and AI agents, addressing the fragmentation caused by using disparate t…
Two ways to measure the cumulative impact of experiments
Simply summing the observed lifts of winning experiments leads to an overestimation of their true impact, a phenomenon known as the "winner’s curse." To achieve more accurate resul…
Data pipeline monitoring 101: Tracking health and performance across the data stack
This article outlines the necessity of end-to-end monitoring to ensure data quality and integrity within the complex, multi-layered structures of modern data pipelines. It provides…