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Monitoring Ruby on Rails applications with Applications Manager

Ruby on Rails is the go-to framework for organizations to build flexible, database-driven web applications with high speed and efficiency. Enterprises of all sizes rely on it to build user-friendly applications. But like any other modern web stack, optimizing the performance, availability, and reliability of Rails applications, especially in production environments, requires more than just reactive bug fixes.

AIOps in 2025: 4 Components and 4 Key Capabilities

AIOps, or Artificial Intelligence for IT Operations, is the application of artificial intelligence and machine learning to automate and improve IT operations. It combines big data analytics, AI, and machine learning to monitor, manage, and optimize IT environments, enabling organizations to proactively detect, diagnose, and resolve issues more efficiently than traditional methods.

Architecting for Value: A Playbook for Sustainable Observability

You’ve built something amazing. Your services are scaling, your users are happy, and your team is shipping code like never before. Then the cloud bill arrives, and one line item makes your eyes water: observability. That Datadog invoice feels less like a utility bill and more like a ransom note. It’s a modern engineering paradox. The tools that give you sight into your complex systems are the same ones that can blind you with runaway costs.

Scout Gives Cookpad Actionable, Rails-Specific Performance Insights

For more than a decade, Cookpad, a global platform for recipe sharing and search, has relied on APM tools to monitor critical application performance metrics, like server response times and resource usage. When their previous APM tool became too expensive after price increases, they needed to find a new solution that could check all of their boxes.

Mistakes To Avoid With Your Public Status Page

A public status page forms the public face of your organization's service availability. It is the first point of contact for your customers to check the status of your services during times of crisis. Hence, ensuring the credibility and uptime of your public status page is crucial to your organization's reputation. In this article we will look at the key mistakes to avoid while hosting and managing a public status page.

You have 200 milliseconds. That's all the time you get to prove your app or website is alive.

200ms is about the speed of a blink of the eye, but it’s the difference between “this site works” and “this site’s broken.” Today’s users expect instant feedback, and that’s why it’s critical to measure from their perspective.

Performance Attribute widgets | Site24x7 Custom Dashboards

Learn how to visualize, analyze, and optimize real-time performance data across your infrastructure using flexible widgets—time series, text, numerical, and more. This video walks you through creating dashboards to track key metrics, compare attributes, and gain instant insights for faster troubleshooting. Perfect for network admins, IT teams, and anyone looking to boost monitoring efficiency.

Datadog Incident Response: Unify remediation and communication

With Datadog's new AI voice agent in Incident Response, you can quickly get up to speed on the issue and start taking action directly from your phone. Handoff notifications make it easy to jump straight to the relevant context and quickly communicate with other responders. Finally, our status pages enable you to automatically update users on your remediation progress.

Introducing Bits AI SRE, your AI on-call teammate

Bits AI SRE is your AI on-call teammate, built to autonomously investigate alerts and coordinate incident response. Integrated with Datadog, Slack, GitHub, Confluence, and more, Bits analyzes telemetry, reads documentation, and reviews recent deployments to determine the root cause of alerts—often before you’ve even opened your laptop. In fact, if you're using Datadog On-Call, you can view Bits’s findings right from your phone—so you’re always one step ahead, no matter where you are.

Bits AI Dev Agent: Automatically identify issues and generate code fixes

The Bits Dev Agent is an AI-powered coding assistant in Datadog designed to reclaim developer productivity by autonomously monitoring telemetry data, identifying key issues, and generating production-ready pull requests. Developers receive asynchronous, context-rich PRs with clear explanations, allowing them to shift their focus from troubleshooting to reviewing solutions and building better code.