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Ameet Talwalkar on Building the AI Research Lab

"We're doing cutting-edge AI, focused on real translational impact: getting our research over the wall and into production." Ameet Talwalkar, Datadog's Chief Scientist, shares what it took to build the AI Research Lab from the ground up — and what makes DAIR different from traditional research teams. At Datadog, research ships. Recent work from the lab includes Toto 2.0, open-weights time series forecasting models ranked on leading benchmarks, and ARFBench, a new benchmark for evaluating AI on real incident data.

Your developers are using AI agents, your data exposure just multiplied

Your developers are already using AI agents. GitHub Copilot, Cursor, Claude Code. Not just for autocomplete, but to generate features, run test suites, and iterate across branches. Each agent needs a database to work against. And in most organizations, nobody has checked what's actually in that database, or whether it should be there.

Preview launch: the Agent Impact Leaderboard and the Business Impact & ROI Dashboard

The Agent Impact Leaderboard and the Business Impact & ROI Dashboard are live in preview inside GitKraken Insights today. We built them because the questions engineering leaders are getting asked about AI shifted faster than the tools to answer them. Here’s what shipped and how to get access.

Your agent can't fix what it can't see

Agents are getting better and better at fixing bugs. They’re even getting better at testing their work, thanks to headless browsers, sandboxes, simulators, etc. But what about the bugs that only show up once you bring in different browsers, languages, extensions, internet speeds, and all the other variables that get mixed in the second you ship to prod? Or all the bugs that only show up when you account for… well, humans being humans and doing weird stuff you didn’t expect them to do?

How Online Plant Identification Tools Work

Online plant identification tools work in a simple way: a user uploads a photo of a plant, the tool analyzes visible features such as leaves, stems, flowers, shape, color, and growth pattern, then compares those features with a plant database. After that, it shows the most common name and, in many cases, adds basic care recommendations.

Observability Expanding Beyond Infrastructure and Into AI Systems

Observability revolves essentially around understanding infrastructure health. This means that operations teams monitor applications, netwo0rks, database and cloud environments using familiar signals. They use logs, metrics, latency, uptime measurements, and traces. If systems remain available and the performance stays within expected thresholds, the teams have enough visibility to understand whether applications are functioning properly.

Inside the Grafana AI Team Weekly: Guards for AI Observability (May 5, 2026)

This is an excerpt from a real AI team weekly meeting where we talk about the stuff we build and occasionally also demo them! In this one, Principal Software Engineer Sven Großmann shows a new feature he's working on for AI Observability, called "guards". We're showing parts of our team meetings to build in public in some small way and give you a sneak preview of what's to come. But not all features we show may make it to production! You've been warned. :)

AI Agent Orchestration in IT Operations: The Complete Developer's Guide

If you've spent any time in IT operations, you know the drill - alerts firing at 2 a.m., cascading failures, runbooks nobody follows correctly, and a team stretched too thin. That's the environment where AI agent development starts making real sense. Not as a buzzword, but as an actual engineering answer to an operational problem that's been compounding for years. From our team's point of view, orchestrating multiple AI agents in IT isn't just automation. It's about building systems that coordinate and act the way a competent ops team would - minus the fatigue.