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The four pillars for AI agent governance at scale
AI agents need governance infrastructure, not just “better models”. Here are the four pillars every enterprise needs to deploy agents safely at scale: identity, authorization, observability, and accountability.
Industrial policy for the Intelligence Age
Explore our ambitious, people-first industrial policy ideas for the AI era—focused on expanding opportunity, sharing prosperity, and building resilient institutions as advanced intelligence evolves.
Migrating Your GitHub CI to Hugging Face Jobs
Open the source for the full engineering note.
DASH 2026: Guide to Datadog’s newest announcements
A roundup of everything we announced at DASH 2026, from Bits AI and MCP Apps to Agent Observability and Journey Monitoring.
DASH 2026 Harnessing AI: Guide to Datadog’s newest announcements
A roundup of everything we announced at DASH 2026, including Datadog MCP Apps, Bits Code, AI Observability, and Pup CLI.
DASH 2026 End-to-End Observability: Guide to Datadog’s newest announcements
A roundup of everything we announced at DASH 2026, including Service Remapping, new RUM and APM Single Step Instrumentation options, and Pipeline Simulation.
DASH 2026 Operating at Scale: Guide to Datadog’s newest announcements
A roundup of everything we announced at DASH 2026, including proactive AI spend attribution, Disaster Recovery, and remote SDK upgrades.
DASH 2026 Security & Compliance: Guide to Datadog’s newest announcements
A roundup of everything we announced at DASH 2025, including Datadog’s new API authentication model, Bits AI Threat Hunting for Cloud SIEM, and Bits AI Security Analyst.
Investigate Kubernetes resources with Datadog MCP tools
Use Datadog MCP Server Kubernetes tools to help AI agents search resources, inspect manifests, and investigate Kubernetes issues.
Turn Datadog findings into automated code fixes with Bits Code
Learn how Bits Code can turn high-impact findings into reviewable code changes for engineers.
Monitor critical user journeys with Datadog Journey Monitoring
See how teams can monitor critical digital experiences from a single hub.
Automatically optimize database queries with Datadog Database Monitoring
Learn how you can automatically detect, validate, and fix slow queries with Datadog Database Monitoring, closing the loop from optimization to deployment.
Get reliable answers to business questions with Bits Data Analysis
Learn how Bits Data Analysis answers business questions using governed data context from Datadog.
Monitor Nebius AI Cloud with Datadog
Monitor Nebius AI Cloud workloads with Datadog. Centralize logs, track GPU performance, trace LLM apps, and get unified multi-cloud observability.
Monitor OVHcloud with Datadog
Centralize OVHcloud logs, host metrics, and APM traces in Datadog for consistent visibility across your entire multi-cloud environment.
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.