What Datadog shipped in May 2026

Deploy Datadog Kubernetes Autoscaling at scale

Datadog published a blog post detailing how to deploy Kubernetes autoscaling at scale using their platform.

Monitor Azure Managed Redis with Datadog

Datadog announces a new integration to monitor Azure Managed Redis, enabling enhanced observability for Redis instances running on Azure.

Monitor JavaScript framework routing with Datadog RUM

Datadog announces enhanced capabilities in Real User Monitoring (RUM) to track JavaScript framework routing, improving observability for web applications.

Unified observability for Alibaba Cloud with Datadog

Datadog announces unified observability for Alibaba Cloud, enabling monitoring and insights across Alibaba Cloud services within the Datadog platform.

Introducing this year’s new Datadog Ambassadors and the new Datadog Champions program

Datadog introduces its new Ambassadors and Champions program to recognize and engage top community contributors and advocates.

Securing AI agents: Why guardrail placement is a key design decision

Datadog publishes a thought leadership blog post discussing the importance of guardrail placement in securing AI agents, highlighting a key design decision in AI system architecture.

Improve API authentication detection with Datadog

Datadog announces a new capability to enhance API authentication detection, likely improving security monitoring for users.

How to measure developer experience (DevEx) in the AI era

Datadog published a guide on measuring developer experience (DevEx) in the context of AI-driven development workflows, offering insights into key metrics and methodologies.

Project and manage cloud spend with Datadog budget forecasting

Datadog announces a new budget forecasting feature within its cloud cost management capabilities, enabling users to project and manage cloud spend more effectively.

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Pricing updated for Datadoghq: - Bits AI SRE Investigations: promotion changed — Month-to-month plans available at $600 per 20 investigations - Feature Flags: promotion ended (was: Usage below 1 milli

Diagnose slow PostgreSQL queries faster with explain plan correlation

Datadog introduces a feature to map PostgreSQL explain plan nodes directly to SQL queries, enabling faster diagnosis of slow queries.

Pricing updated for Datadoghq: - Bits AI SRE Investigations: promotion changed — Month-to-month plans available at $600 per 20 investigations, per month. On-demand billing at $ per investigation. - Fe

Pricing updated for Datadoghq: - Bits AI SRE Investigations: promotion changed — $600 per 20 investigations - Feature Flags: promotion changed — Usage below 1 million monthly flag configuration reques

Attribute AI costs across providers with Datadog Cloud Cost Management

Datadog's blog post introduces new capabilities in Cloud Cost Management to track and attribute AI-related costs across cloud providers.

Toto 2.0: Time series forecasting enters the scaling era

Datadog announces Toto 2.0, a major update to its time series forecasting capabilities, positioning it for the 'scaling era'. The feature aims to enhance predictive analytics for large-scale datasets.…

Simplify micro-frontend observability with Datadog RUM

Datadog announces enhancements to its Real User Monitoring (RUM) product to improve observability for micro-frontend architectures, enabling better tracking and debugging of distributed frontend compo…

Pricing updated for Datadoghq: - Log Management - Flex Logs Starter: now includes Retention options of 3 months, 6 months, 12 months, and 15 months; Bundled Starter Compute for log volumes below 2B pe

Pricing updated for Datadoghq: - Feature Flags: allowance changed from 1 million MFCRs included at no cost to 1 million included - New tier: Log Management - Ingest ($0.10/mo GB ($0.0833/mo annually))

Pricing updated for Datadoghq: - Feature Flags: promotion changed — Usage below 1 million monthly flag configuration requests is included at no cost. - New tier: Log Ingestion (Standard) ($0.10/mo GB

Pricing updated for Datadoghq: - Feature Flags: promotion changed — Usage below 1 million monthly flag configuration requests is included at no cost. For usage above 1 million requests, pricing is bil

Pricing updated for Datadoghq: - Infrastructure Free: allowance changed from Up to 5 hosts to 5 hosts

Pricing updated for Datadoghq: - Bits AI SRE Investigations: added annual billing at $500/mo - Feature Flags: annual price $100/mo → $83.33/mo - New tier:

Diagnose and resolve database performance issues faster with Database Investigator

Datadog introduced Database Investigator, an agentic feature in Database Monitoring that automatically identifies root causes and suggests remediation steps for database performance issues. The tool a…

Pricing updated for Datadoghq: - Bits AI SRE Investigations: promotion changed — Month-to-month plans available at $600 per 20 investigations, per month.

Analyze cloud costs with flexible spreadsheets in Datadog Sheets

Datadog launched Datadog Sheets, enabling users to perform spreadsheet-style analyses on live cloud cost data within Cloud Cost Management. This feature allows for flexible, customizable reporting dir…

Datadog for Government achieves FedRAMP® High certification

Datadog announced FedRAMP High certification for its government-focused observability platform, enabling sensitive agency workloads with unified monitoring, security, and NIST compliance. This certifi…

Pricing updated for Datadoghq: - Code Coverage: promotion ended (was: Billed annually or $12 on-demand) - Bits AI SRE Investigations: promotion changed —

Pricing updated for Datadoghq: - Code Coverage: new promotion — Billed annually or $12 on-demand - Bits AI SRE Investigations: promotion changed — Billed annually. Month-to-month plans available at $6

Inside Datadog’s AI Research Lab: Meet two PhD candidates behind Toto

Datadog's blog post introduces two PhD candidates working in their AI Research Lab, highlighting their contributions to the Toto project. The post emphasizes Datadog's investment in AI research and ta…

Connect triage and investigation in a single workflow with Datadog Cloud SIEM

Datadog announces an update to its Cloud SIEM product, enabling users to connect triage and investigation processes within a single workflow. This aims to improve efficiency in security operations.

Monitor and optimize Supabase query performance with Datadog Database Monitoring

Datadog Database Monitoring now offers Supabase developers query-level visibility, explain plans, and one-click setup to diagnose performance issues. This integration aims to enhance troubleshooting f…

This Month in Datadog - April 2026

Datadog’s April 2026 update introduces the MCP Server for enhanced integrations, Datadog Experiments for controlled testing, and Bits AI Security Analyst for automated threat detection. These features…

Pricing updated for Datadoghq: - Code Coverage: promotion ended (was: Billed annually or $12 on-demand) - Bits AI SRE Investigations: promotion changed — Month-to-month plans available at $600 per 20

Pricing updated for Datadoghq: - Code Coverage: new promotion — Billed annually or $12 on-demand - Log Management - Ingest: new promotion — Billed annually or $0.10 on-demand - Log Management - Standa

Add dynamically updating context to logs with Reference Tables and Observability Pipelines

Datadog launched Reference Tables and Observability Pipelines to centrally enrich logs before routing to SIEMs or data lakes. This allows pre-processing of log data to add context or metadata, improvi…