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Cribl On Your Coffee Break Episode 4 - Gathering REST data

In the 4th installment of our series, Leon looks at Cribl’s ability to collect REST API data. By the time the month (and the series) is over, you will have a pretty good idea of what Cribl can do, and how to do it. You’ll also have consumed your body weight in caffeinated beverages...

Automate Product Analytics reports with your agent and the CX CLI

Every page view, click, and session your RUM SDK captures lands in Coralogix as a log event under the cx_rum subsystem — the raw data behind how people actually use your product. You can turn it into a shareable report without writing a single query. Just ask your coding agent. Your agent queries that data through the CX CLI and writes the report for you: describe what you want in plain English, get a formatted report back — without leaving the terminal.

The pager shouldn't be what starts the investigation

Authored by Greg Janco, Engineering Manager at Mezmo I've always thought there was something backwards about incident response. An alert fires at 3 a.m. PagerDuty does its job. Somebody wakes up, grabs a laptop, connects to the VPN, opens the alert, and then starts answering the same basic questions we ask at the beginning of almost every incident. What changed? What else is broken? Have we seen this before? Some of those need a human eventually. A lot of the first pass doesn't.

10 Top Website Monitoring Tools for Uptime, Page Speed and Real User Data

Your uptime tool reports the site as available all month. Support reports something else, because customers in one region spent the morning unable to complete a checkout. Both records are accurate, and that is the problem. An external check confirms the page answered. It cannot tell you that the answer took nine seconds for everyone routed through one CDN edge, or what caused the delay.

Build and run Datadog workflows from Bits Chat or AI agents

Teams use AI coding agents and Bits Chat to troubleshoot systems and handle complex tasks, often uncovering repetitive work worth automating. But turning those routines into workflows can still require switching tools and recreating context manually. Through the Datadog MCP Server, Workflow Automation now lets you build workflows from Bits Chat or AI coding agents like Claude Code, Cursor, and Codex.

August 2026 Early Warning Signals

August brought notable outages across developer platforms, SaaS tools, communications services, and cloud applications. StatusGator detected 789 Early Warning Signals during the month. Of those, 153 incidents (19.39%) were acknowledged by providers, while 636 (80.61%) were not officially acknowledged. StatusGator’s Early Warning Signals often surface service disruptions before providers post an official update.