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Practical AI-Enabled Observability for Agents and LLMs

You’re told to “go build agents” without clear guidance on what that actually means, how to do it well, or how to know if it is working. You are not a data scientist. You are a software engineer. In this talk, a Datadog AI product leader Shri Subramanian breaks down what changes when you move from building applications to building AI agents, and why familiar approaches like traditional testing and linear delivery fall short. We will explore how agent development shifts the focus from code alone to data, prompts, and evaluation, and why functional reliability matters just as much as operational reliability.

End to End Reliability for all your Workloads

Delivering great products to your customers requires a mix of evolution and consistency. To really land with users your product has to be ready to adapt and scale, prioritizing across a mix of customer and business needs. Join experts in reliability, systems engineering, and DevOps as they share real-world examples, true stories of pitfalls, and astounding impact from the experiments they have run. Learn how experienced practitioners handle failure, adapt to scale, and bridge gaps between teams to improve software performance and customer outcomes.

We Know Before it Breaks: Observability-Driven Development

When stakeholders push for faster growth (new markets, new features, newly modernized stack) your engineering model has to change too. At FitnessPassport, the shift from offshore waterfall delivery to an in-house team meant rebuilding not just services, but confidence: legacy systems with weak logging and little visibility made it hard to know whether changes were working and impossible to spot issues before users did. In this talk, Director of Engineering Rob Mitchell will share how FitnessPassport adopted Datadog and used structured logs, metrics, and traces to tighten feedback loops.

From Manual Requests to SelfServe: Building an AccessControlled App that Adapts Automatically

Platform teams often end up as the bottleneck for “small” operational asks: add a new button, wire up a workflow, expose one more cloud capability—each change requiring engineering time, reviews, and releases. In this technical deep dive, engineers from the Department of Government Services (Victoria) share the architecture and open source CDK library behind their “Infrastructure Control Panel”: a modular operational enablement app that lets non-technical users interact safely with cloud resources through strong access controls.

Observability and Security for the AI Era

Datadog has always been driven by a broader vision of helping teams understand and operate complex systems. In this session, you’ll hear from Yrieix Garnier, VP of Product, and Hugo Kaczmarek, Senior Director of Product, as they share the latest updates across the Datadog product suite and discuss how that vision continues to shape the platform’s evolution and support the next generation of AI-driven applications.

Olivier Pomel and Alexis Lê-Quôc on Datadog's origin, AI, and more | This Month in Datadog

Get an insider’s view of Datadog from the people who built it. On a special episode of This Month in Datadog, co-founders Olivier Pomel and Alexis Lê-Quôc sit down for a rare, in-depth look at the challenge that inspired them to build the Datadog platform, what the company is working on today, AI, and more. This Month in Datadog brings you the latest updates on our newest product features, announcements, resources, and events.

Balancing Data Locality, Data Sovereignty, and Data Replication

Modern distributed systems must simultaneously respect where data must live, where it should live for performance, and where it needs to live for resilience. Data sovereignty and residency requirements increasingly affect technical design decisions, not only in regulated industries, but in any global product that must navigate regional expectations, latency constraints, cost structures, and operational realities.

Datadog Data Observability, enables you to detect data quality and pipeline issues early.

See our latest Episode of This Month in Datadog, for a spotlight of Datadog Data Observability, which enables you to detect data quality and pipeline issues early, as well as remediate those issues with end-to-end lineage. We also cover: This Month in Datadog brings you the latest updates on our newest product features, announcements, resources, and events.