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Highlights from AWS re:Invent 2025: Making sense of applied AI, trust, and going faster

After four days of AWS re:Invent—a 65,000-step marathon that included 60,000 attendees spread across five Las Vegas campuses—and navigating the latest installment of this 13-year-old cloud pilgrimage, we’re all a little dehydrated but significantly wiser. The volume of announcements felt less like a single flood and more like a river branching into three powerful currents. Making sense of this massive technological convergence requires zooming out.

This Month in Datadog - December 2025

For our last episode of 2025, we’re focusing on Datadog releases announced at AWS re:Invent. Join Jeremy to see how you can manage logs at petabyte scale in your infrastructure, eliminate unneeded costs in Amazon S3 buckets, build agentic workflows, and detect credential leaks. Later in the episode, Scott spotlights how you can connect your AI agents to Datadog tools and context with our MCP Server.

A better way to monitor your AI agents in .NET apps

We launched agent monitoring earlier this year, allowing our users to instrument LLM usage and tool calls in their applications. However, we only had Agent Monitoring support for Python and JavaScript. We’ve been working on creating an Agent Monitoring SDK for.NET — specifically for Microsoft.Extensions.AI.Abstractions.

Bindplane Community Call in December 2025

Join us live on Wednesday, December 10th at 11am EDT for the December Community Call. We’ll cover: Hands-on demos of the new Bindplane features you’ve been asking for Recaps of KubeCon+CloudNativeCon NA in Atlanta New Bindplane feature guides and blog posts As always, we’ll wrap with an interactive Q&A, so bring your questions!

AI-Powered Observability: From Reactive to Predictive

If there’s one thing clear from our AI-powered observability webinar, it’s that observability has officially graduated from a “nice-to-have” to a business-critical discipline, and AI is helping lead that charge. Our webinar brought together guest speaker Stephen Elliott, Group VP at IDC, and Ranbir Chawla, former SVP of Engineering at RB Global, for an hour of insights that mixed data, experience, and hard-won lessons from the trenches.

Home Assistant Hardware: Requirements and Recommendations

Choosing the proper Home Assistant hardware can be overwhelming. Whether you’re new to home automation or a seasoned pro, the hardware you select can make or break your experience. This comprehensive guide will demystify the requirements, delve into the various options, and help you make an informed decision. From the compact Raspberry Pi to the powerful Intel NUC, we’ve got you covered. So, strap in, and let’s dive into the world of Home Assistant hardware!

How to Build a Clear AI Implementation Strategy

Organizations see AI’s transformative potential, but success requires more than technology – it demands a clear strategy led by IT. A structured AI implementation roadmap aligns initiatives with business goals, establishes governance, and enables measurable ROI, while improving employee and customer experiences. Yet, 66% of organizations view AI as critical, but only 38% report meaningful competitive advantage, highlighting the need for disciplined adoption.

Why Web Synthetic Monitoring essential for Modern Web Performance

Your analytics dashboard is green, which indicates that your application is up 99.9% of the time, pages load in under three seconds on average, and conversion rates are stable. But here’s the uncomfortable reality, you’re probably missing 40% to 60% of the actual performance problems which impact real customers every day.

Planning a Smooth Cutover When You Change Critical Business Tools

A cutover is when you change from an old IT system to a new one. With technology advancing at a rapid rate, more and more businesses are learning about and implementing cutovers. If now's the time for you to execute a cutover, it's important that you plan everything effectively so that it goes smoothly. Planning a smooth cutover is easier said than done, however. There are some important things you need to know first. Until you conduct extensive online research, you're never going to be able to effectively plan a cutover.

3 Questions I Expect You to Ask Me

As a product specialist, I’ve had countless conversations about network observability. I’ve seen the good, the bad, and the downright confusing. The market is flooded with vendors, all claiming to have the magic bullet for your network woes. Everywhere I go, the story is the same. The neat and tidy world of the on-premises data center is gone, replaced by a sprawling environment that stretches across multiple clouds, your own facilities, and out to the edge.