Datadog unveiled more than 100 features at its annual DASH 2026 conference and moved to expand its Bits AI agent.

SiliconANGLE reported on June 9 that the key focus of the announcement was automating development, security and operations work through Bits AI.

Datadog cited two pressures reshaping enterprise technology environments: code generation speed is outpacing human management capacity, and attackers are using AI to target core systems. It expanded its product lineup to raise automation levels and broaden visibility.

Bits AI moved beyond its previous focus on root cause analysis, adding functions including Bits Detection, Agent Eval, Infrastructure, Code, Release, Data Analysis, Testing, Chat and others. These functions continuously check infrastructure to detect and investigate problems, and support recommending fixes or taking direct action within predefined guardrails. Agent Eval debugs AI agent errors and generates fixes. Bits AI also operates within Slack and Anthropic Claude.

In security, Datadog introduced AI Guard aimed at prompt injection and agent poisoning attacks. AI Guard combines agent telemetry tracking with behavioral anomaly analysis to detect and block attacks that can be missed by simple prompt-response checks.

Datadog also unveiled Bring Your Own Cloud to address cost issues from surging logs. The approach is designed to place the platform inside a customer environment so data is not moved outside, and to process and index it in the customer's cloud object storage.

It also strengthened AI agent supervision. Bits Agent Builder supports recovery automation, report writing and compliance work by letting customers build customized AI agents within a customer-defined scope of control. Agent Console centrally monitors AI agents and agent-based development tools, including Claude Code, Cursor and GitHub Copilot.

Olivier Pomel (올리비에 포멜), Datadog's co-founder and CEO, said, "Not only model performance, but also operational control is the battleground in the AI era."