Product leaders talk safer, faster releases and deeper analysis with Bits | This Month in Datadog
In July’s This Month in Datadog, Jeremy is joined by Datadog product leaders for in-depth conversations about how Bits enables you to confidently evaluate and release features containing AI-generated code, and use natural language to ask, understand, and act across Datadog.
Ruxanda traces her career from working on containers at GCP and AWS to AI features in Google Search, and now spearheading Bits Release and Bits Testing at Datadog. She talks about how agentic workflows impact trust during new feature development, the challenges of testing nondeterministic agent behavior, and how the new Bits products were built to help developers move confidently and as fast as AI can generate code.
Later, Jonathan discusses new ways to engage with Datadog data and tools. He talks about accessing Bits where you’re already working via the MCP Server and quickly completing tasks in Datadog by chatting with Bits. He discusses how Bits can now function like a tenured engineer by remembering key facts and data from past investigations and by using skills built around your organization's best practices. He also walks through Datadog’s approach to evaluating Bits’ quality and accuracy across a variety of use cases.
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YouTube Chapters:
This Month in Datadog
00:59 Ruxanda’s career from containers to AI
02:10 How agentic workflows impact trust in releases
03:36 Testing in a nondeterministic world
05:30 Capabilities for developers to move as fast as AI can write code
06:35 Where human judgment is still needed in the dev process
08:22 Solving human problems, not just technology ones
09:55 What’s next: End-to-end testing from idea to production
12:17 Sign up for the Previews of Bits Release and Bits Testing
12:41 New feature roundup
12:51 What Jonathan is working on
13:10 Bits Chat: A new way to interact with Datadog
14:05 Bits remembers yesterday’s facts to do today’s work
15:39 Empower Bits to function like a tenured engineer with skills
17:12 A future capability to call Bits in your existing workflows via the MCP Server
18:52 How Datadog ensures Bits can tackle a variety of use cases
20:51 What’s next: One interface to create, kick off, and monitor agents
22:58 Learn more about Bits Chat
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Sign up for the Preview of Bits Release: https://www.datadoghq.com/product-preview/bits-release/
Sign up for the Preview of Bits Testing: https://www.datadoghq.com/product-preview/bits-testing/
Sign up for the Preview of Bits Live Debugger: https://www.datadoghq.com/product-preview/debug-with-bits/
Learn more:
Ship code safely at AI speed with Bits Release blog: https://www.datadoghq.com/blog/bits-release/
Automate synthetic test coverage with Bits Testing blog: https://www.datadoghq.com/blog/bits-testing-test-coverage/
Search and act across Datadog to resolve issues faster with Bits Chat blog: https://www.datadoghq.com/blog/introducing-bits-chat/
Automate Live Debugger investigations with Bits AI release note: https://demo.datadoghq.com/release-notes/automate-live-debugger-investigations-with-bits-ai
Ship internal applications from your AI Agent with Datadog Apps blog post: https://www.datadoghq.com/blog/internal-applications-datadog-apps/
Monitor C and C++ applications with Datadog RUM release note: https://demo.datadoghq.com/release-notes/monitor-c-and-c-applications-with-datadog-rum
Investigate and configure RUM with the Datadog MCP release note: https://demo.datadoghq.com/release-notes/investigate-and-configure-rum-with-the-datadog-mcp
Detect Phone Numbers in Logs to Improve PII Compliance release note: https://demo.datadoghq.com/release-notes/detect-phone-numbers-in-logs-to-improve-pii-compliance
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