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Monitor, troubleshoot, improve, and secure your LLM applications with Datadog LLM Observability

Organizations across all industries are racing to adopt LLMs and integrate generative AI into their offerings. LLMs have been demonstrably useful for intelligent assistants, AIOps, and natural language query interfaces, among many other use cases. However, running them in production and at an enterprise scale presents many challenges.

Unify your OpenTelemetry and Datadog experience with the embedded OTel Collector in the Agent

OpenTelemetry (OTel) is an open source, vendor-neutral observability solution that consists of a suite of components—including APIs, SDKs, and the OTel Collector—that allow teams to monitor their applications and services in a standardized format. OTel defines this data via the OpenTelemetry Protocol (OTLP), a standard for the encoding and transfer of telemetry data that organizations can use to collect, process, and export telemetry and route it to observability backends, such as Datadog.

DASH 2024: Guide to Datadog's newest announcements

At this year’s DASH, we announced new products and features that enable your team to observe your environment, secure your infrastructure and workloads, and act to remediate problems before they affect customers. LLM Observability, which enables you to get deep visibility into your generative AI applications, is now generally available. The Datadog Agent now includes an embedded OTel Collector to provide native support for OpenTelemetry.

Securing your cloud castle: Effective Amazon VPC monitoring with Site24x7

In the realm of modern business, the cloud reigns supreme. Countless organizations rely on cloud infrastructure s for core operations, from storing sensitive data to running critical applications. However, with this reliance comes a vital responsibility: safeguarding your cloud environment against ever-evolving security threats.

A deep dive into global DNS connection performance with IBM & Catchpoint

Imagine: Your executive team spent the last year developing messaging. Your design team worked for weeks on a compelling awareness campaign. Then, your marketing team deployed the perfect lead generation campaign. Your new customer, ready to make a purchase, eagerly clicks on your website link... only to be met with a frustratingly slow loading page.

New Redis open source server packages for Icinga DB

Finally, we are pleased to announce the availability of the new Redis* open source server packages for Icinga DB for all supported distributions . You may have already noticed that we had some issues with the previous packages here and there, but we’ve been working on them for months and now they’re finally available for you to use.

Cribl's Midyear Product Highlights 2024

We’re already halfway through 2024, and thus far, it’s been an eventful year: Swifties won the Super Bowl, CriblCon happened at not the real Caesar’s Palace, and we witnessed both a solar eclipse and a Drake diss track. Whether you’re a long-time Cribl customer or are new to our Community, we want to make sure you’re always informed of what’s the latest and greatest with Cribl’s suite of products.

Free the data: Why US federal agencies should standardize on OpenTelemetry

In today's digital age, data is the lifeblood of modern organizations — and the US government is no exception. As agencies grapple with the ever-increasing volume and complexity of data, it is imperative to adopt a standardized approach to monitoring, analyzing, and understanding the behavior of complex IT systems. This is where OpenTelemetry, an open-source observability framework, comes into play.

Debugging: "Failed to construct 'Request': Invalid Argument." in Edge

Nothing changed in your code. All of a sudden, a tidal wave of errors start happening for Microsoft Edge users. What the heck happened? On August 28th, 2019, many TrackJS customers saw a sudden surge in errors from Microsoft Edge browsers: Failed to construct 'Request': Invalid Argument and Failed to execute 'fetch()' on 'Window': Invalid argument". Our Debugging blog series explores symptoms, causes, and solutions to common JavaScript errors.