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Application Observability, Built for Hybrid Reality Modern applications don’t live in one place. A single transaction might span: Traditional APM shows you the trace. But hybrid reality doesn’t stop at the service layer. True application observability ties transactions to the infrastructure that actually delivered them across cloud, on-prem, and everything in between. Because in hybrid environments, the root cause rarely lives in just one tier.

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.

Actually useful AI is welcome in observability. AI for the sake of AI is not. In this overview of Grafana Labs’ 4th annual Observability Survey, Marc Chipouras shares what 1,300+ respondents from 76 countries told us about the current state of observability — and what comes next. This year’s survey explores four major themes: The results show strong interest in AI for forecasting, root cause analysis, onboarding, and generating dashboards, alerts, and queries. But when it comes to autonomous action, practitioners are more cautious — and 95% say AI needs to show its work to earn trust.