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Build custom apps in seconds with conversational AI in App Builder

Jan 7, 2026 By Datadog In Datadog

Using a drag-and-drop interface, engineering teams can create apps that support troubleshooting, improve day-to-day operations, and offer self-service access without leaving Datadog. With the new conversational AI feature, teams can turn an idea into a working app in seconds. Watch the video to see how it works..

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Essential digital experience metrics for development teams

Jan 5, 2026 By Laura Marwick In Raygun

For the team that's down in the trenches untangling legacy code, writing unit tests, and just trying to come up with sensible variable names, it's easy to lose sight of the other end of the process, where code meets customer. You test, you deploy, nothing breaks, and you move on. However, it's just as important to keep an eye on code quality in production, and how it's experienced. Experience, though, is hard to quantify. What do you measure? How do you measure it? How do you improve it? And why do you care? We lay out answers in this post.

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What is OTLP and How It Works Behind the Scenes

Jan 5, 2026 By Dhruv Ahuja In SigNoz

If you have worked with observability tools in the last decade, you have likely managed, and been burnt by, a fragmented collection of tools and libraries. Each observability signal required its own tool, data formats were incompatible and had little or no correlation. For example, log records would not link to traces, meaning you had to guess which traces led to which events. The OpenTelemetry Protocol (OTLP) solves this by decoupling how telemetry is generated from where it is analyzed.

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Check out features we announced at AWS re:Invent in the latest episode of This Month in Datadog

Jan 5, 2026 By Datadog In Datadog

Tune in for spotlights of Bits AI SRE, now generally available, and Datadog’s MCP Server, which connects AI agents to our platform by ingesting prompts and mapping them to Datadog resources and data. Plus, we cover how to: Search logs at petabyte scale in your own infrastructure with CloudPrem Break down costs drivers at the prefix level with Storage Management Create workflows that adapt to real-world complexity with Agent Builder Detect and block credential leaks with Secret Scanning.

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OpenTelemetry Collector Contrib - A Hands-on Guide

Jan 5, 2026 By Dhruv Ahuja In SigNoz

As application systems grow more complex, it becomes ever more important to understand how services interact across distributed systems. Observability sheds light on the behavior of instrumented applications and the infrastructure they run on. This enables engineering teams to gain better track system health and prevent critical failures. OpenTelemetry (OTel) has standardized how we generate and transmit telemetry, and the OpenTelemetry Collector is the engine that processes and export this data.

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Drive business outcomes with Unit Economics in Datadog Cloud Cost Management

Dec 23, 2025 By Datadog In Datadog

See how Datadog turns cloud usage and performance data into actionable business insights by helping teams calculate unit economics to measure and optimize the efficiency of every service. You’ll discover how to: Datadog bridges the gap between cloud costs and business value—helping organizations get the most value out of their cloud investment.

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Automate Cloud Cost Optimization Across Workloads

Dec 23, 2025 By Datadog In Datadog

See how Datadog Cloud Cost Management combines observability and cost data with actionable automation to help teams optimize spend. In this short demo, you’ll learn how to: With Datadog Cloud Cost Management, cost optimization is built into the same platform engineers use every day.

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Reducing OpenTelemetry Bundle Size in Browser Frontend

Dec 22, 2025 By Elizabeth Mathew In SigNoz

When I was building applications, I used to always rely on the DevTools console of my web browser to examine logs in the frontend. But, with UI log messages only being accessible within your browser rather than forwarded to a file somewhere, which is the common pattern with backend services, losing visibility of this resource when triaging user issues was a real dilemma.

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From Zero to Open Source Contributor

Dec 18, 2025 By Datadog In Datadog

Never contributed to open source and feeling intimidated? Same. Before joining Datadog, Alessandro had zero open source experience. Now he's a regular contributor to Apache Iceberg. Here's exactly how he got started. Step 1: Join the Slack community and answer user questions. Step 2: Look for "good first issue" tags in the repo. Step 3: Remember that opening bug reports and doing code reviews count as contributions too.

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