111 updates from Datadog and New Relic in the last 30 days. We read them all so you don't have to.
Datadog is a monitoring service for IT, Dev and Ops teams who write and run applications at scale, and want to turn the massive amounts of data produced by their apps, tools and services into actionable insight.
New Relic is the industry's largest and most comprehensive cloud-based instrumentation platform to help customers create more perfect software.
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DatadogNew RelicDatadog focused heavily on its DASH2026 conference, unveiling a comprehensive "Bits" AI suite designed to automate development, security, and operational workflows, alongside "AI Guard" for securing AI agents. Their updates emphasized autonomous operations, automated code remediation, and expanded data observability. In contrast, New Relic centered its activity on the launch of an Agentic Platform featuring an SRE Agent and the introduction of AI Coding Observability to monitor AI coding assistants. While Datadog emphasized large-scale platform integrations and automated remediation, New Relic focused on the specific risks of AI-generated code and strategic partnerships with Microsoft and AWS to support hybrid cloud environments.
Last updates we detected for each vendor.
Datadog amplified a post by Eugene Kovnatsky discussing the unique observability challenges faced by live media streaming services during sudden traffic spikes, such as those occurring during a World Cup match.
Datadog shared insights on the massive scale of live media infrastructure required to support major global sporting events with billions of viewers.
Datadog shared a personal story from Namit D'Cruz about the challenges and rewards of building the company's enterprise business in India from scratch.
Datadog shared a case study demonstrating how AccuWeather used Datadog Data Observability to reduce false alarms by 50% and cut incident response times from 90 minutes to just minutes.
Datadog is hosting a live recap of its flagship #DASH2026 conference on June 25th. The session will cover how modern teams use AI to transform software building, operations, and security.
New Relic published the claude-code-plugin repository, a new open-source project aimed at integrating observability capabilities with Claude Code.
New Relic compares leading Kubernetes monitoring tools, emphasizing the importance of unified observability across metrics, logs, and traces. The guide evaluates solutions like Datadog and Prometheus + Grafana to help engineers reduce MTTR
New Relic highlights its deep integration with Microsoft Azure, offering native observability tools and AI-ready capabilities via the Model Context Protocol. The partnership enables seamless deployment through the Azure portal and provides
New Relic amplified a post by New Relic India discussing a community initiative in Hyderabad where employees packed 320 school kits for underprivileged students.
New Relic has been selected as the observability partner for Purplle, India's leading beauty platform. The partnership aims to reduce incident resolution times by up to 70% and improve application performance for millions of users.
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