On the April episode of This Month in Datadog, Jeremy covers tracking GitHub Copilot usage, avoiding mistyped terminal commands with Datadog CoTerm, and pinpointing the root cause of browser performance issues. Later in the episode, Lutao Xie spotlights unifying OpenTelemetry and Datadog with our distribution of the OpenTelemetry Collector. Also featured are an exciting, in-depth preview of DASH 2025 and new learning paths on the Datadog Learning Center.
This Month in Datadog is a monthly update of the company's latest features, product announcements, and more. Subscribe to our YouTube channel to get notifications about future episodes.
New features
Stay vendor neutral with the Datadog Distribution of the OpenTelemetry Collector
Previously, teams faced a tough trade-off: adopt OpenTelemetry’s flexible data pipeline or benefit from Datadog’s advanced monitoring and security features. Today, we’re excited to bring you the Datadog Distribution of the OpenTelemetry Collector, which unifies the OpenTelemetry and Datadog experience.
Our distribution offers an enterprise-ready, OTel-native Collector distribution that enables you to adopt OTel's flexibility and take full advantage of our advanced observability features. With this new feature, you can collect, process, and export OTLP telemetry to Datadog or other destinations using OTel-native configurations and extend the Collector distribution with custom OTel-compatible components. Check out this blog post and documentation to learn more and to get started today.
Track GitHub Copilot usage across your organization
GitHub Copilot is a popular AI coding assistant that helps engineers write code faster and with less effort through capabilities like generating code from prompts. With Datadog’s new integration, you get a preconfigured dashboard where you can see your organization’s assigned licenses and active seats as well as total suggestions, their acceptance rate, and the most-used IDE. Get a closer look at this dashboard and what insights it offers with this blog post.
Avoid mistyped terminal commands and require approvals
Even the most careful engineers occasionally mistype commands. Datadog CoTerm helps engineers avoid these missteps by providing real-time checks of sensitive commands. Not only will CoTerm warn engineers before they execute risky commands, you can also set up CoTerm to require approvals, which will create requests in Datadog Case Management. Learn more about CoTerm, which is available in Preview, by reading this blog post.
Pinpoint the root cause of browser performance issues
Core Web Vitals are critical benchmarks for assessing a site’s health, but it’s not always easy to turn these metrics into actionable insights. Found in Datadog Real User Monitoring, the new Optimization page helps you quickly spot performance issues by providing Loading Time metrics and Core Web Vitals for each of your application pages. Check out this blog post to get up to speed on the Optimization page’s recommendations for troubleshooting, waterfall visual of events, and more.
Additional updates
More new features and updates released this month:
- Create synthetic browser tests faster with browser test recommendations
- Securely manage your self-hosted infrastructure with private actions for workflows
- Enrich your system's end-to-end visibility by deriving tags from a process's command line with Process Tag Rules
- Alert on cloud network metrics with monitors for Cloud Network Monitoring
See you next month
Check out our release notes for a full list of new features and updates. You can see these features and updates in action by logging on to the Datadog platform today or signing up for a 14-day free trial. We will see you next month.
