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This Month in Datadog - July 2026

In July’s episode of This Month in Datadog, Ruxanda Lueck joins Jeremy for a conversation about how you can confidently evaluate and release features that contain AI-generated code. She also discusses her career trajectory from containers to AI, how agentic workflows impact trust during feature development, and the challenges of testing nondeterministic agent behavior.

From Claude Code to Production: A Monitoring Checklist for Python Developers

Python is the native language of AI-assisted development. Models are really good at writing it, and a lot of people are now shipping it without ever having written much Python themselves. The whole thing is really simple. You prompt an app, Claude Code or Cursor produces a working Flask or FastAPI backend, and you’re live in a few hours. However, there’s still a big difference between “it works on my machine” and “it works in production”.

Enterprise AI isn't broken; your data is broken

A friend who runs data engineering at a mid-sized logistics company once showed me something that made me laugh, and then made me a little sad. Her team spent four months building a chatbot that was supposed to answer simple questions like "how many shipments are delayed in the Chennai warehouse right now." The bot worked beautifully in the demo. Then someone asked it a real question, and it confidently returned a number that was off by almost a factor of ten. Not because the model was dumb.
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Building a Modern Cloud Outage Response Workflow in Slack and Microsoft Teams

On May 7 and 8, 2026, a thermal event in a single AWS data center hall knocked out power to EC2 instances and EBS volumes in a single Availability Zone in us-east-1. Within hours, more than 150 cloud services went down, including Coinbase, Reddit, HubSpot, and Atlassian's suite of tools, Jira, Confluence, and Trello among them. For teams without a structured cloud outage response workflow, the next several hours looked familiar: Slack DMs asking "is it down for you too?", tab-switching between status pages, and incident commanders repeating the same update in three different channels.

How SigNoz MCP Helped MSI Find 20 Unnecessary Operations

Taylor Mattison explains how SigNoz MCP helped surface wasted work inside MSI's sales-order workflow. Warning checks were firing on user actions that had nothing to do with any warning they could raise. By comparing telemetry across the workflow, Taylor could point to unnecessary operations that were wasting API calls, database time, and server capacity. This clip is part of our MSI customer story on using SigNoz MCP with Claude to debug slow sales orders across the stack.

The Margin Leak Business Services Firms Can't Bill Away

Business services firms are built on people’s time, judgment, and credibility. When a consultant loses half an hour before a client workshop, a legal team is stuck waiting for a document system, or a service delivery group has to move conversations elsewhere because collaboration tools are unreliable, it may not register as a major IT event. It still changes the economics of the work, because skilled time is being spent compensating for the environment instead of serving the client.

What Is the MITRE ATT&CK Framework? A Guide for IT Ops Teams

Most IT operations teams cannot say how much of the MITRE ATT&CK framework they already cover. The framework gets explained in the language of threat hunting and red teams. The parts that belong to infrastructure work are easy to miss. And then, coverage questions get answered with a guess. The mismatch costs time on both sides. Security asks for a coverage answer that ops has no clean way to produce. Yet the controls that stop a large share of those techniques already sit with your team.