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Capture and analyze custom heatmaps in Session Replay

Apr 6, 2026 By Stella Ma In Datadog
Datadog Session Replay heatmaps track where users click, scroll, and engage across your web pages. Each heatmap is overlaid on a screenshot of the page, and that background determines what you can actually analyze. But getting the right screenshot can be tricky. Many UI states are dynamic, rare, or simply impossible to capture from replays, so heatmaps can end up showing the wrong view.
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From Manual Requests to SelfServe: Building an AccessControlled App that Adapts Automatically

Apr 6, 2026 By Datadog In Datadog
Platform teams often end up as the bottleneck for “small” operational asks: add a new button, wire up a workflow, expose one more cloud capability—each change requiring engineering time, reviews, and releases. In this technical deep dive, engineers from the Department of Government Services (Victoria) share the architecture and open source CDK library behind their “Infrastructure Control Panel”: a modular operational enablement app that lets non-technical users interact safely with cloud resources through strong access controls.
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We Know Before it Breaks: Observability-Driven Development

Apr 6, 2026 By Datadog In Datadog
When stakeholders push for faster growth (new markets, new features, newly modernized stack) your engineering model has to change too. At FitnessPassport, the shift from offshore waterfall delivery to an in-house team meant rebuilding not just services, but confidence: legacy systems with weak logging and little visibility made it hard to know whether changes were working and impossible to spot issues before users did. In this talk, Director of Engineering Rob Mitchell will share how FitnessPassport adopted Datadog and used structured logs, metrics, and traces to tighten feedback loops.
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End to End Reliability for all your Workloads

Apr 6, 2026 By Datadog In Datadog
Delivering great products to your customers requires a mix of evolution and consistency. To really land with users your product has to be ready to adapt and scale, prioritizing across a mix of customer and business needs. Join experts in reliability, systems engineering, and DevOps as they share real-world examples, true stories of pitfalls, and astounding impact from the experiments they have run. Learn how experienced practitioners handle failure, adapt to scale, and bridge gaps between teams to improve software performance and customer outcomes.
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The Fundamentals: Fast, Deep, and Ready for What Comes Next - Part 3

Apr 6, 2026 By Ken Rimple In Honeycomb
The previous two posts in this series have looked at some of the use cases Honeycomb customers are implementing to observe LLMs in production and power agentic observability workflows. In this third and final post, we’ll take it back to basics and look at how the fundamental capabilities and infrastructure of Honeycomb provide the comprehensive data and fast performance that makes these use cases work at production scale. AI capabilities built on a weak observability foundation fall apart fast.
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AI Working for You: MCP, Canvas, and Agentic Workflows - Part 2

Apr 6, 2026 By Ken Rimple In Honeycomb
In our previous post in our series on observability for the agent era, we looked at how Honeycomb provides unique visibility into LLMs operating in your production environment. Now, let’s flip it around and explore how Honeycomb provides observability insights uniquely suited to helping your AI agents rapidly diagnose and fix production issues, and build production feedback into the next round of development.
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New Features: Team Members and Additional Email Recipients

Apr 6, 2026 By Matt Rideout In DNS Check
DNS Check now supports two features for Enterprise accounts that make it easier to work as a team: Team Members and Additional Email Recipients. Team Members lets multiple people log in and work with your DNS records using their own credentials. Additional Email Recipients sends notification emails to people who need to stay informed but don't need to log in.
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Employee Monitoring Software for the Modern Workplace in 2026

Employee Monitoring Software for the Modern Workplace in 2026

Apr 6, 2026 By OpsMatters In OpsMatters
Most managers don't want to spy on their employees. But when your team is spread across three time zones and half of them work from home, knowing what's actually getting done isn't spying. It's just good management. Employee monitoring software has changed a lot in the past few years. It's no longer just about clocking in and out or taking screenshots every 10 minutes. The best tools today help teams work better, not just track whether they're working at all.
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