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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.

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.

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.

Common Network Switch Issues & How to Fix Them

As a network admin, you're probably all too familiar with the importance of your network switches. These devices keep the heart of your network beating by connecting various devices, from computers to printers, and ensuring data flows smoothly. However, switches, like any hardware, come with their own set of issues that can disrupt productivity and cause headaches if not addressed promptly.

Bringing GitLab Logs into Focus with Graylog

GitLab’s audit logs offer a goldmine of insights into user activity, project changes, and security events. Getting that data into Graylog for centralized analysis is easier than you might think—especially with the flexibility of our Raw HTTP input and Illuminate’s GitLab Spotlight Pack. In this two-part guide, we’ll walk you through how to get it done, from wiring up GitLab’s Audit Event Streaming to visualizing enriched events in a purpose-built dashboard.

Is Your Network Ready for the Perfect Storm?

For decades, the corporate network has been the central nervous system of the enterprise. It’s the invisible, indispensable fabric that connects everything. And for just as long, the conversation has been about its growing complexity. But today, something feels different. You are no longer dealing with a predictable, manageable evolution. Instead, three immense, converging forces are creating a perfect storm, pushing traditional network management approaches to their breaking point.

Grafana Cloud updates: deeper insights in Kubernetes Monitoring, Adaptive Metrics updates, and more

We consistently roll out helpful updates and fun features in Grafana Cloud, our fully managed observability platform powered by the open source Grafana LGTM Stack: Loki for logs, Grafana for visualization, Tempo for traces, and Mimir for metrics. In case you missed them, here’s our monthly round-up of the latest and greatest updates in Grafana Cloud. You can also check out our What’s new in Grafana Cloud documentation to explore all the latest features. Not a Grafana Cloud user yet?

How the StatusGator name was born

More than 10 years ago, StatusGator pioneered the concept of a status page aggregator. How was the StatusGator name created? In a group chat, of course! The incubator of crazy ideas and nerdy discussions, our friendly group chat was a place where I originally discussed the product idea, validated its use cases, and solicited feedback on name concepts. I recently unearthed screenshots from the original group chat among my friends.

Introducing the new search box on StatusGator

Recently we hit an exciting milestone at StatusGator: 6,000+ services now tracked! To mark the occasion, we’ve made it even easier to find the apps you care about and report outages: A brand-new, lightning-fast search box is now live on the StatusGator website. It’s built right into the top navigation, accessible from any page — and works beautifully on mobile, too.