Logs, traces, metrics, and error tracking for production systems.
This week: Debugging goes live: Datadog and Sentry ship new runtime tools →
Sentry's JavaScript SDK added a new config entry point ahead of v11 while Datadog dd-trace-py fixed span view errors and disabled fast memory copy in embedded Python.
Logs and metrics are now enabled by default, with enable_logs and enable_metrics removed; OTLP trace export and propagator default to false. New granular data_collection config replaces the deprecated send_default_pii, and Rails breadcrumbs now respect these controls.
Let’s say your team shipped a support agent last quarter. The launch demo went well, stakeholders were pleased, and everyone moved on. A few months la...
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Sep 1, 2026
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Datadog's APM team open sources dd-trace-rs, an opinionated Rust distributed tracing library built on the OpenTelemetry SDK. It configures itself from standard Datadog environment variables (DD_SERVICE, DD_ENV), applies consistent sampling and context propagation, and reuses the OpenTelemetry instrumentation ecosystem, alongside upstream contributions to improve tracing/OpenTelemetry interoperability.
Datadog shipped three blog-led updates: a new Bitbucket Cloud source-code integration for faster troubleshooting, Tines workflow integration for security-threat prioritization, and a methodology post on proving query rewrite performance.
Developers and SREs who use Bitbucket Cloud often need to move between their source code, observability data, test r...
Learn how Bits generates synthetic data, measures simulation fidelity, and uses execution time and database work to determine whether an optimization ...
Learn how Tines workflows can update Datadog Observability Pipelines to prioritize threats, reduce alert noise, and accelerate investigations.
Datadog's tracing SDKs added AI Guard sensitive-data redaction and a recordException API, while Sentry's JS SDK stopped AI integrations from double-reporting handled errors.
A quiet maintenance day: both Sentry CLI releases were internal snapshot builds with no user-facing changes, and the Axiom Go SDK's only release was a dependency bump, including upgrading OpenTelemetry to v1.46.0.
The experimental apply --since option now deletes assets based on Git history, comparing a git reference against the current state and removing anything no longer present. It also handles moving assets among files; a full diff command and GitHub Action are upcoming.
Datadog's new build-time allowlist approach for RUM and Session Replay preserves readable action names for static text while keeping runtime-generated or sensitive values masked. The mask-unless-allowlisted privacy level and companion build plugin extract fixed strings from compiled artifacts and let the Browser SDK display only allowlisted text.
Sentry announced a February 2027 CA migration to Google and Let's Encrypt, warning pinning users to act, while Datadog fixed an upgrade regression and trace-agent data loss and made agentless feature-flag delivery the default in dd-trace-py.
Datadog Live Debugger lets teams place logpoints on running services to capture variable values, method arguments, and execution context without restarting or redeploying code. Bits AI can analyze linked source code, place non-breaking logpoints, retrieve variable snapshots, and suggest fixes from production data.
