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The Deconstructed Database at Datadog

As Datadog scaled to handle over a hundred trillion daily events, our engineering teams built their own custom query engines to keep things fast. While this helped teams move quickly, it also created silos that made it tough to analyze data across different products. To keep growing and support AI, we had to find a way to bring these engines together using open standards without slowing anyone down or risking reliability.

Best practices for scaling A/B testing with experiment protocols

Running one A/B test well is manageable. Scaling A/B testing to hundreds of experiments across dozens of teams is harder, because teams may make different decisions about metrics, randomization, rollout, and analysis. Experiment protocols in Datadog Experiments turn an approved methodology into a reusable configuration, giving experiments of the same type a consistent starting point. In this post, you’ll learn how to.

Monitor Oracle AI Database across clouds with Datadog

Organizations can use Oracle AI Database@AWS, Oracle AI Database@Azure, and Oracle AI Database@Google Cloud to run Oracle databases co-located with the cloud applications they support rather than managing the databases on premises. However, running applications in a cloud provider’s environment while hosting databases on Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) can lead to visibility gaps. When application performance degrades, identifying the source of the problem can be difficult.

Optimize AI costs with Agent Observability

AI agent costs accumulate along more dimensions than a model-call count. Spend is a product of both which models you call and how the agent is architected: how many turns the loop runs, how many tools it invokes, how much retrieved context it carries, and how much of that context is re-sent on every turn. Provider bills tell you how much you spent, but they’re keyed to API keys and models instead of the applications and workflow steps that generated the calls.

Automate Slack Support with Datadog Workflow Automation + Bits AI

Automate Slack support questions with Datadog Workflow Automation and Bits AI Agent Builder. Datadog Workflow Automation can now trigger directly from messages posted in Slack. In this quick demo, Yuta Yoshida, Product Manager at Datadog, shows how to build an automated support workflow that: → Detects new support questions in a Slack channel→ Sends questions to a custom agent built with Bits AI Agent Builder→ Replies directly in the Slack thread with an answer and relevant documentation.

Build better SLOs with RUM and synthetic SLIs

Well-designed service level objectives (SLOs) help you track the benchmarks your app needs to meet to deliver a successful user experience (UX). To track performance against these SLOs, many SRE teams are turning to real user monitoring (RUM) and synthetic monitoring for their service level indicators (SLIs), as these forms of data provide more direct measurements of UX than backend performance metrics.

Modal scales the next generation of AI with unified observability from Datadog

Modal is an AI infrastructure company rebuilding the cloud for AI, giving developers easy access to the compute needed to build and scale AI applications without managing the underlying complexity. Operating across more than 20 cloud providers and launching approximately 26 million containers daily, Modal relies on Datadog to unify observability across its infrastructure, applications, networking, and CI—helping its engineers detect 99% of incidents within five minutes, resolve 96% of issues before customer impact, and confidently scale one of the world’s most complex AI platforms.