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DASH 2023: Guide to Datadog's newest announcements

This year at DASH, we announced new products and features that enable your teams to get complete visibility into their AI ecosystem, utilize LLM for efficient troubleshooting, take full control of petabytes of observability data, optimize cloud costs, and more. With Datadog’s new AI integrations, you can easily monitor every layer of your AI stack. And Bits AI, our new DevOps copilot, helps speed up the detection and resolution of issues across your environment.

Store and analyze high-volume logs efficiently with Flex Logs

The volume of logs that organizations collect from all over their systems is growing exponentially. Sources range from distributed infrastructure to data pipelines and APIs, and different types of logs demand different treatment. As a result, logs have become increasingly difficult to manage. Organizations must reconcile conflicting needs for long-term retention, rapid access, and cost-effective storage.

Enhance code reliability with Datadog Quality Gates

Maintaining the quality of your code becomes increasingly difficult as your organization grows. Engineering teams need to release code quickly while still finding a way to enforce best practices, catch security vulnerabilities, and prevent flaky tests. To address this challenge, Datadog is pleased to introduce Quality Gates, a feature that automatically halts code merges when they fail to satisfy your configured quality checks.

Integration roundup: Monitoring your AI stack

Integrating AI, including large language models (LLMs), into your applications enables you to build powerful tools for data analysis, intelligent search, and text and image generation. There are a number of tools you can use to leverage AI and scale it according to your business needs, with specialized technologies such as vector databases, development platforms, and discrete GPUs being necessary to run many models. As a result, optimizing your system for AI often leads to upgrading your entire stack.

Send your logs to multiple destinations with Datadog's managed Log Pipelines and Observability Pipelines

As your infrastructure and applications scale, so does the volume of your observability data. Managing a growing suite of tooling while balancing the need to mitigate costs, avoid vendor lock-in, and maintain data quality across an organization is becoming increasingly complex. With a variety of installed agents, log forwarders, and storage tools, the mechanisms you use to collect, transform, and route data should be able to evolve and adjust to your growth and meet the unique needs of your team.

Troubleshooting ECS Container Crashes

Amazon Elastic Container Service (ECS) is a versatile platform that enables developers to build scalable and resilient applications using containers. However, containerized services, like Node.js applications, may face challenges like memory leaks, which can result in container crashes. In this blog post, we’ll delve into the process of identifying and addressing memory leaks in Node.js containers running on ECS. First, let’s look closer at what a memory leak is.

Dashboard Stories: A unified view of NSW snowboarding conditions

Adam Hewins, Senior Operational Support Engineer, presents this cool snowboarding conditions dashboard built in SquaredUp using the WebAPI plugin. As a long-time snowboarder, this dashboard was built so Adam can see at-a-glance the weather and trail conditions in Perisher, NSW. Learn how Adam used the WebAPI plugin to effortlessly surface data for snowfall, snowdepth, temperature and even Perisher live camera imagery in one centralized dashboard.

Dashboard Stories: High-level Jira ticket summary

Luke Gackle, ICT Service Desk Officer at the South Australian Tourism Commission presents this Jira Ticket Summary dashboard built in SquaredUp using the Jira plugin. Built to provide his support team an at-a-glance view of ticket statuses nearing an SLA breach, it now serves as as key overview / reference point for their daily stand-ups. With no good way of displaying these numbers in a native Jira dashboard, Luke used the Jira plugin to effortlessly fill these gaps in a SquaredUp dashboard.