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High-signal field notes, architecture teardowns, and engineering writing from 50 publications. A focused reading queue for becoming a stronger end-to-end engineer. Updated 20 Aug.
Modernize Datadog API authentication with scoped credentials
Learn how Datadog’s new API authentication model replaces application keys with scoped, identity-aware access using PATs, SATs, Workload Identity Federation, and OAuth.
Monitor Scaleway with Datadog
Use the Datadog Scaleway integration to collect logs from Cockpit and Audit Trail and monitor Scaleway alongside your other cloud providers.
Datadog MCP Apps: Interactive experiences in AI workflows
Learn how the Datadog MCP Server supports live Datadog graphs, monitors, and other UI elements directly within AI tools such as Cursor, ChatGPT, Claude, and Codex.
Automate threat hunting with Datadog Cloud SIEM
Learn how Bits Threat Hunting helps security teams proactively identify attacker behavior with AI-driven, hypothesis-based threat hunting.
Comprehensively connect your service data with Service Remapping
Learn how Datadog Service Remapping unifies your telemetry across APM, logs, and metrics by letting you fine-tune service definitions without any code or configuration changes.
Ship internal applications from your AI Agent with Datadog Apps
Learn how Datadog Apps lets you build and deploy apps from your AI agent directly into Datadog, with built-in governance, observability, and secure integrations.
Ship code safely at AI speed with Bits Release
Bits Release continuously validates every change from pull request to production, catching silent regressions and helping engineering teams ship at AI speed.
Detect source code attacks with Datadog Code Threat Detection
Learn how Datadog Code Threat Detection helps teams detect malicious pull requests and source code attacks targeting CI/CD workflows, secrets, and software releases.
Investigate logs across your entire stack with Federated Logs
Learn how to use Federated Logs to investigate logs across Datadog, Databricks, ClickHouse, Amazon S3, and Snowflake.
Trace network paths from devices to SaaS applications
Diagnose per-hop latency across network hops from user devices to SaaS applications with Datadog End User Device Monitoring and Network Path.
Understand production LLM behavior with Patterns in Agent Observability
Learn how Patterns in Agent Observability helps teams identify recurring behaviors in their LLM applications, investigate quality issues, and improve evaluation coverage.
Detect and resolve endpoint issues across your fleet with Datadog
Automatically detect, investigate, and resolve fleet-wide endpoint issues with Datadog End User Device Monitoring, powered by Bits Investigation.
Triage synthetic test failures faster with Bits Investigation
Learn how Bits Investigation helps engineers triage synthetic test failures, identify likely root causes, and reduce manual investigation time.
Bring live Datadog telemetry into your AI agents with native integrations
Bring Datadog telemetry into Claude Code, Claude.ai, OpenCode, Cursor, ChatGPT, and Codex with fast integrations powered by Datadog MCP Server.
Get a unified view of system health with the Datadog Synthetic Monitoring landing page
Analyze synthetic test health, performance, and coverage with the Datadog Synthetic Monitoring landing page. Identify gaps and correlate signals.
Monitor agent adoption with Datadog Agent Console
Learn how Datadog Agent Console helps you track coding agent adoption, spend, engineering impact, and waste patterns across your organization.
Troubleshoot frontend performance with Datadog’s Browser Profiler
Learn how Browser Profiler helps frontend teams connect degraded signals to the exact JavaScript functions responsible for slowdowns in production.
Automate synthetic test coverage with Bits Testing
Bits Testing automates synthetic test coverage by discovering user journeys and generating tests that adapt as your application changes.
Trace Azure-managed services in .NET applications with Datadog
Monitor Azure Service Bus, Event Hubs, Cosmos DB, and API Management in end-to-end distributed traces for .NET applications.
Improve AI agent quality with Bits Evals
Learn how Bits Evals helps teams analyze failures, generate evaluators, and improve AI agents by using production signals and Agent Observability data.
Start your day with the IDP Homepage
Learn how the Datadog IDP Homepage helps reduce tool switching and connect daily engineering work to production impact.
Simplify request flows with Datadog Forms and Case Management
Learn how to use Datadog Forms and Case Management to collect requests and automatically create cases for teams to track and resolve work.
Remediate issues autonomously with Bits Infrastructure Operations
Learn how Bits Infrastructure Operations helps teams detect, investigate, and safely remediate infrastructure issues with guardrailed automation.
Resolve network issues from L7 to L1 with Datadog
Learn how network path comparison, device health, and Bits AI capabilities help you investigate and resolve network incidents end to end.
Maintain observability during cloud outages with Datadog Disaster Recovery
Datadog Disaster Recovery lets you fail over to a secondary Datadog site to preserve visibility and telemetry continuity when your primary site is impacted.