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Platform engineering metrics: What to measure and what to ignore

Apr 9, 2026 By Candace Shamieh In Datadog
Platform engineering teams have access to hundreds of metrics, yet over 40% of platform initiatives cannot demonstrate measurable value within the first year. Teams that cannot quantify their impact fail to obtain executive sponsorship, risk being defunded, and ultimately, face deprecation. To accurately calculate a platform’s ROI, platform engineering teams need to differentiate between signals that measure platform effectiveness and those that should be used solely for investigative purposes.
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Integrate Recorded Future threat intelligence with Datadog Cloud SIEM

Apr 9, 2026 By Shreya Batra In Datadog
Recorded Future provides real-time threat intelligence about indicators of compromise (IOCs), including malicious IP addresses, domains, and vulnerabilities. It also adds context on threat actors and campaigns to help security teams understand which signals represent real risk and prioritize their responses accordingly.
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Instrument and monitor Boomi integration flows with OpenTelemetry and Datadog

Apr 9, 2026 By Massimo Sporchia In Datadog
Boomi is an Integration Platform as a Service (iPaaS) used by thousands of organizations to connect applications, data, and workflows across cloud and on-premises environments. Business-critical processes, from order fulfillment pipelines to customer data synchronization, depend on Boomi Atoms and Molecules running reliably.
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Not all index scans are equal: How we cut query latency by over 99%

Apr 9, 2026 By Nenad Noveljic In Datadog
When engineers investigate SQL queries, they normally think of index scans as a fast and efficient step in the query’s execution plan. When executed correctly, they fetch only the relevant rows from your table as opposed to sequential scans that read the entire table, reducing latency and query costs. However, just because an execution plan uses an index scan doesn’t mean that the scan is fast or performant.
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Operating agentic AI with Amazon Bedrock AgentCore and Datadog LLM Observability: Lessons from NTT DATA

Apr 7, 2026 By Tohn Furutani In Datadog
This guest blog post is by Tohn Furutani, SRE Engineer at NTT DATA. Over the past year, the conversation around generative AI has shifted from single-shot use cases—such as summarization, Q&A, and chat interfaces—to agentic AI systems that can make decisions based on context, plan multistep actions, invoke tools, and adapt as conditions change.
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Practical AI-Enabled Observability for Agents and LLMs

Apr 7, 2026 By Datadog In Datadog
You’re told to “go build agents” without clear guidance on what that actually means, how to do it well, or how to know if it is working. You are not a data scientist. You are a software engineer. In this talk, a Datadog AI product leader Shri Subramanian breaks down what changes when you move from building applications to building AI agents, and why familiar approaches like traditional testing and linear delivery fall short. We will explore how agent development shifts the focus from code alone to data, prompts, and evaluation, and why functional reliability matters just as much as operational reliability.
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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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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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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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