Operations | Monitoring | ITSM | DevOps | Cloud

Every organization has two non-negotiables: stay compliant and stay online. But achieving both—especially at scale—isn’t easy. Many IT teams still rely on manual processes for backups, documentation, and recovery. And when something goes wrong? The cost isn’t just measured in downtime, but in regulatory penalties, lost trust, and business disruption. What if network compliance wasn’t a separate process—but could naturally integrate into your recovery strategy?

Hybrid and multicloud IT environments have become standard for enterprises, and with good reason. These environments offer greater flexibility, improved resilience, and optimized performance by allowing organizations to leverage the best features of multiple cloud providers while maintaining the security of on-premises infrastructure.

Picture this: Your phone rings in the middle of the night. It’s your engineering lead, calling to inform you of a significant outage affecting your customer-facing services. As your network operations team jumps into action, they’re greeted with chaos. Over 40 alerts flood their screens simultaneously. Your network, infrastructure monitoring, and application performance monitoring tools all fire independently, each with its own dashboard and presenting data in incompatible formats.

In the high-stakes world of IT operations, compliance isn’t optional—but bureaucracy is. Security standards and audit demands aren’t going anywhere, and every configuration change could be the one that triggers a compliance failure or service outage. Traditionally, compliance has been synonymous with paperwork, manual reviews, and late-night fire drills before audits. But that mindset is due for an upgrade.

We are thrilled to announce that Datadog has been named a Leader in the Forrester Wave: AIOps Platforms, Q2 2025. We believe this placement reflects Datadog’s commitment to offering an AI-driven platform that enables customers to observe and secure systems, orient teams, and take action in one place. Datadog sits within your most critical workflows, processing trillions of telemetry data points every hour through your alerts, service maps, teams, on-call schedules, and more.

The 2025 Gartner Market Guide for Event Intelligence Solutions arrives at a critical time for organizations facing increasing complexity in managing IT events. Today’s diverse, distributed IT environments create significant operational challenges – alert fatigue, fragmented tools, and slow incident response – impacting both efficiency and customer experiences.

If you run IT operations for a managed service provider (MSP), you know you’ve got to work with a lot of different customers, each of whom presents a unique set of challenges to your ability to deliver the services that you offer. These customers expect flawless service delivery—and often, you’re asked to deliver that despite the limitations of your own IT infrastructure. But don’t fret.

There is a strong push for adopting Kubernetes’ base Agentic Framework, given the adoption for containers and the similarities between containers and agents ( agents are stateful though).