Operations | Monitoring | ITSM | DevOps | Cloud

How we designed empathetic alert sounds for on-call engineers

Being on call is an essential part of operating reliable distributed systems, but it comes with real human costs such as alert fatigue, sudden wakeups in the middle of the night, and the ongoing anxiety of what the next notification might bring. Many engineers know the feeling: Your phone lights up, a sound cuts through the silence, and your heart rate spikes before you’re even fully awake.

Search and act across Datadog to resolve issues faster with Bits Assistant

Finding the right information across dashboards, monitors, and telemetry sources takes time, even for experienced engineers. When something breaks, it often means figuring out where to start, rebuilding queries, and jumping between metrics, logs, and traces before you can take action. The challenge isn’t a lack of data but the effort required to surface the right information at the right moment.

Understand session replays faster with AI summaries and smart chapters

Datadog Session Replay gives teams a video-like view of what real users experienced in their applications. Engineers rely on replays to connect errors and slowdowns to actual user behavior, while product managers use them to understand friction and improve critical flows. But finding the right replay and the right moment often means manually scanning long sessions without knowing whether they contain relevant signals.

Measure the business impact of every product change with Datadog Experiments

Modern product teams ship features constantly. Every change—whether it’s a new onboarding flow, pricing tweak, or UI adjustment—raises the same question: Did this improve the product? AI has changed the stakes entirely: As release cycles accelerate and code generation scales across every team, the volume of changes has outpaced most teams’ ability to measure their true value.

Analyzing round trip query latency

It’s an all too common scenario: You get paged for some queries timing out, but when you investigate, the database performance looks unchanged. Something must have changed, though. If the database doesn’t look overloaded, where are these timeouts coming from? The answer often lies outside the database itself. Round trip query latency includes every hop between your application and the database, including connection pools, load balancers, and proxies.

Monitor Nutanix clusters, hosts, and VMs with Datadog

Nutanix is a hyperconverged infrastructure (HCI) platform that combines compute, storage, and virtualization into a single software-defined stack. By collapsing traditional infrastructure tiers into one platform, Nutanix simplifies provisioning and operations for virtualized workloads. Clusters are managed through Prism Central, which provides visibility into health, performance, capacity, and operational activity across hosts and VMs.

Datadog achieves ISO 42001 certification for responsible AI

As AI-powered products and services become central to how organizations operate, the need for responsible AI governance has never been greater. Customers, partners, and regulators are seeking assurance that AI systems are built, managed, and monitored responsibly and effectively. Datadog is committed to the responsible use of AI, both in how we build our products and in how we help customers observe their AI workloads.

Introducing Bits AI Dev Agent for Code Security

As organizations adopt AI-assisted development and increase their release velocity, they are not only generating more code but also finding more vulnerabilities from static analysis. The traditional remediation workflow of manually triaging issues, creating tickets, and opening individual pull requests (PRs) cannot keep pace. Fixing tens of thousands of vulnerabilities one by one is not a viable remediation strategy.

A new Host Map for modern infrastructure

A host map is a visual representation of your infrastructure that displays hosts and related resources such as clusters, pods, and containers in a single, interactive view. We introduced the Datadog Host Map more than a decade ago to help you “know thy infrastructure” and answer critical questions: Does everything look healthy? Has anything changed? Does the shape of my environment match what I expect?