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Deploy Datadog Kubernetes Autoscaling at scale

May 28, 2026 By Danny Driscoll In Datadog
Every Kubernetes environment accumulates waste over time. Teams overprovision CPU and memory requests to avoid performance risk, run idle replicas to preserve headroom, and leave Horizontal Pod Autoscalers (HPAs) untouched long after workload behavior has changed. Some of this waste can be addressed at the node level, where Datadog Cluster Autoscaling helps teams rightsize capacity.
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Unified observability for Alibaba Cloud with Datadog

May 28, 2026 By Ellie Cohen In Datadog
Alibaba Cloud is a major cloud provider in APAC, offering industry-leading foundational AI models in addition to compute, managed databases, object storage, and Kubernetes through its Container Service for Kubernetes (ACK). Teams choose Alibaba Cloud for its infrastructure availability across Asia Pacific and its managed services. For SREs and platform engineers, that often means running Alibaba Cloud alongside AWS, Google Cloud, or Microsoft Azure.
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Investigate funnel drop-offs with Product Analytics

May 27, 2026 By Datadog In Datadog
For most product teams, funnels are a staple of the analytics toolkit despite a frustrating limitation. You can see which step users are dropping off at, but understanding why requires hours of manual slicing across segments, separate comparison views, and a lot of trial and error before you land on a useful hypothesis. And even when you find something meaningful, taking action typically means jumping to another tool, building a new segment, or filing a request with a data team.
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Ameet Talwalkar on Building the AI Research Lab

May 26, 2026 By Datadog In Datadog
"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.
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Measure the real impact of AI coding tools on software delivery with Datadog AI Impact

May 26, 2026 By Datadog In Datadog
Engineering teams have rapidly adopted AI coding tools, but organizations still struggle to understand their impact. Existing dashboards focus on activity, such as daily active users, acceptance rates, or lines of generated code, but these metrics don’t answer a more important question: Are teams actually shipping more, faster, and with fewer issues?
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How to measure developer experience (DevEx) in the AI era

May 22, 2026 By Datadog In Datadog
As AI coding assistants dramatically inflate PR counts, commit frequency, and lines of code, the limitations of individual output metrics have never been more apparent. A developer can now produce significantly more lines per session, but higher volume doesn’t guarantee that the code is stable, maintainable, or successfully running in production. GitClear analyzed over 200 million lines of code and found that code churn nearly doubled following widespread AI adoption.
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Project and manage cloud spend with Datadog budget forecasting

May 21, 2026 By Katherine Broner In Datadog
Cloud and SaaS spending continues to grow across teams, services, and providers, changing too quickly for retrospective cost management workflows to keep up. Finance and engineering leaders often rely on last month’s reports or manually maintained spreadsheets, which don’t reflect current usage. As a result, teams lack context on how spend is trending and often discover budget overruns only after they’ve occurred.
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How to audit and clean up monitors effectively

May 20, 2026 By Capucine Marteau In Datadog
Alert fatigue and blind spots develop together. Monitoring stacks that generate noise while missing critical issues may have incomplete coverage or poorly configured alerts. As they grow reactively and without structured coverage assessment, both issues worsen. Teams will often add monitors when something breaks and tune thresholds when alerts become unbearable, but rarely audit their overall setup to see if it works.
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How we made a SQL query optimization agent 59% more accurate using autoresearch and LLM Observability

May 20, 2026 By Datadog In Datadog
Without experiment infrastructure to help you test your LLM applications, every research session starts with the same questions: What have we tried previously? What were the numbers? Which prompt version produced that result? Why did we discard that approach? The answers live in scattered notes, terminal history, and half-remembered conversations. Each handoff between sessions loses context. In practice, iteration can slow down as teams get bogged down in testing and analysis.
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