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The risk of headline-grabbing incidents, like Samsung’s ChatGPT data leak, related to AI usage outside of the authorization and control of IT (a.k.a. shadow AI) is clear. Most IT teams recognize that a high-profile incident can have serious repercussions. However, the risk of shadow AI goes well beyond the risk of a single incident. In fact, the recent Komprise IT Survey indicates that 79% of organizations have experienced negative outcomes from sending corporate data to AI.

MongoDB’s strength of flexible schema and fast iteration can also hide costly queries until they surface as user-facing latency, replica lag, or spiky CPU. A handful of slow operations can impact the cache, starve other workloads, and cascade into timeouts across services. Monitoring slow queries gives you an early warning system for index gaps and query-plan regressions introduced by code deploys, schema changes, or shifting data shapes.

There’s a new way to ingest AWS metrics into Grafana Cloud that makes observing your AWS resources more cost-effective, easier to operate, and more accurate. You can now stream metrics into the AWS Observability app in Grafana Cloud in near real-time thanks to our new integration with Amazon CloudWatch and Amazon Data Firehose. We’re already using it internally, and we’re finding that it’s not only easier to operate—it’s at least five times more cost-effective.

In the August episode of This Month in Datadog, Jeremy shares how you can make more informed cloud cost decisions, gain insights into your LiteLLM-powered applications, and secure Kubernetes infrastructure with Datadog Workload Protection. Later in the episode, Danny puts the spotlight on Datadog Kubernetes Autoscaling, which helps you deliver cost savings without sacrificing performance.

There are a lot of ways to gauge the performance of your DevOps teams and the health of your software, but DORA metrics have emerged as the industry standard. If you aren’t familiar with DORA metrics, take a few minutes to read this comprehensive guide to understanding DORA metrics. DORA metrics were designed to offer a high-level, long-term view of how your teams are performing.