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Datadog is constantly elevating the approach to cloud monitoring and security. This Month in Datadog updates you on our newest product features, announcements, resources, and events. To learn more about Datadog and start a free 14-day trial, visit Cloud Monitoring as a Service | Datadog. This month, we chat with two guests about Bits AI SRE and Datadog Data Observability.

In this video, we'll guide you through the process of monitoring and managing your usage of front-end observability features in Blackfire. Learn how to access your Browser usage dashboard to view browser traces collected per environment, track your quota consumption, and understand the concept of spike protection. You'll discover how Blackfire's automatic detection of abnormal traffic spikes protects your monthly quota and ensures continuous data collection.

In this video, learn how to enable and configure Front-end Observability in Blackfire. The tutorial covers steps to enable features across multiple environments via the Organization settings / Front-end usage in the Blackfire dashboard. Control front-end observability by enabling or disabling Browser Monitoring and Analytics per environment, using a JavaScript probe and a unique browser key. The video emphasizes the importance of naming transactions and explains how to manually add tracking snippets to HTML for better control.

Grafana Cloud helps teams detect, investigate, and resolve incidents faster—thanks to AI, open standards, and seamless integrations with OpenTelemetry, Prometheus, Salesforce, and more. See how it all works in this live demo of a simulated e-commerce outage.

Datadog Data Observability provides a complete solution with quality checks (e.g., volume, row changes, freshness), custom SQL-based monitors, anomaly detection, column-level lineage across systems like Snowflake and Tableau, full pipeline visibility, and targeted alerts when data issues arise.