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Find answers in your logs faster with Datadog's Tap to Parse

Logs are easiest to investigate when the values that matter are already captured as attributes. When those values are buried in a log message, even a straightforward question such as filtering on a status code, graphing the duration of a request, or following a unique transaction across a set of logs requires writing complex regular expressions or Grok patterns.

What Is Shadow IT? Meaning, Risks, and How It Shows Up in Your Asset Inventory

Most shadow IT starts with a marketing team that needed a file-sharing tool on Tuesday. The next procurement cycle was six weeks away. That gap keeps widening. According to Gartner, 75 percent of employees will acquire, modify or create technology outside IT's visibility by 2027, up from 41 percent in 2022. Shadow IT is the name for that tech. IT asset discovery is where it first shows up. In this blog, you will: By the end, you can turn shadow IT into a weekly review queue.

Foundation first: Why building a resilient IT infrastructure is your path to AI-readiness

Strategically ready, operationally unsure. That's how 42% of organizations describe their own AI preparedness when it comes to strategy versus infrastructure, data, risk, and talent, according to Deloitte's State of AI in the Enterprise 2026 report. As AI adoption accelerates, organizations now face the mounting pressure from the board to move past pilots and show AI delivering measurable business outcomes.

Cribl On Your Coffee Break Episode 17 - Notebooks

Whether you call them runbooks, response guides, or just notebooks, today on Cribl on your coffee break, we are looking at Cribl’s implementation, which lets you document your notes, queries, and discoveries as you make them, and then re-run those same processes later to troubleshoot similar issues in the future with less toil. By the time the month is over, you will have a pretty good idea of what Cribl can do, and how to do it. You’ll also have consumed more caffeinated beverages than is strictly appropriate...

When users don't click thumbs up: Inferring agent feedback from Datadog telemetry

Collecting high-quality user feedback on agents, like from thumbs-up or thumbs-down buttons, is an important part of agent development. User feedback is needed for everything from basic gut checks on whether your agents are behaving well to planning and creating robust eval sets. It’s a critical part of Datadog’s Agent Observability, which provides explicit end-user feedback features for collecting and analyzing it.