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Debug live production issues with the Datadog Cursor extension

The Datadog Cursor Extension uses the Datadog remote MCP Server to give developers access to Datadog tools and observability data directly from within the Cursor IDE. The Cursor Extension enables you to view live variable values that your logpoints capture during execution, and you can use the Cursor Agent to identify the lines of code responsible for the issue at hand. The Datadog Cursor Extension is now available in Preview.

How Datadog Cloud Network Monitoring helps you move to a deny-by-default network egress policy at scale

When organizations first begin deploying workloads on Kubernetes, it's common for them to start with a permissive egress traffic policy that allows any workload to reach the internet. This approach can make it easier for teams to stay agile and to get services up and running in fast-moving environments. But as your Kubernetes footprint grows, it's important to minimize public internet access on a per-workload basis to improve your organization's security posture.

Bits AI Dev Agent: Automatically identify issues and generate code fixes

The Bits Dev Agent is an AI-powered coding assistant in Datadog designed to reclaim developer productivity by autonomously monitoring telemetry data, identifying key issues, and generating production-ready pull requests. Developers receive asynchronous, context-rich PRs with clear explanations, allowing them to shift their focus from troubleshooting to reviewing solutions and building better code.

Introducing Bits AI SRE, your AI on-call teammate

Bits AI SRE is your AI on-call teammate, built to autonomously investigate alerts and coordinate incident response. Integrated with Datadog, Slack, GitHub, Confluence, and more, Bits analyzes telemetry, reads documentation, and reviews recent deployments to determine the root cause of alerts—often before you’ve even opened your laptop. In fact, if you're using Datadog On-Call, you can view Bits’s findings right from your phone—so you’re always one step ahead, no matter where you are.

Datadog Incident Response: Unify remediation and communication

With Datadog's new AI voice agent in Incident Response, you can quickly get up to speed on the issue and start taking action directly from your phone. Handoff notifications make it easy to jump straight to the relevant context and quickly communicate with other responders. Finally, our status pages enable you to automatically update users on your remediation progress.

Monitor Lambda-hosted web apps with the Lambda Web Adapter integration

As organizations migrate their legacy web applications from containerized or server-based deployments to serverless environments, they often run into a critical compatibility challenge. Traditional web frameworks like Flask, Express, or SpringBoot are designed to run on persistent HTTP servers, not event-driven, stateless environments like AWS Lambda. The AWS Lambda Web Adapter bridges this gap by allowing teams to run web server-based applications inside Lambda with minimal changes.

Missing container-layer metadata: Why it happens and what you can do

Container image layers provide valuable insight into what goes into a container, including which packages were installed, what commands were run, and where vulnerabilities might live. The metadata associated with these image layers is essential for debugging, optimizing image size, and managing security risks. However, key container-layer metadata fields such as digest, size, and created_by are sometimes missing, which can disrupt important tasks.

Choosing the right OpenTelemetry Collector distribution

The OpenTelemetry (OTel) Collector plays a central role in collecting, processing, and exporting telemetry data. If you’re deploying the Collector in production, chances are you’ve reached for the otelcol-contrib distribution. It’s the easiest, most flexible, and most documented distribution, used in nearly every demo and getting-started guide. But here’s the catch: It’s not actually recommended for production use.