Datadog's DASH 2026 conference announcements cover a broad range of observability improvements. Key highlights include native OpenTelemetry support across Infrastructure, Kubernetes Explorer, and APM; Service Remapping GA for unified telemetry naming; Single Step Instrumentation for Windows hosts and combined APM+RUM in one command for Java/NGINX; distributed tracing for Azure managed services and Application Insights; new RUM Operations monitoring and Browser/Mobile Profilers; network device monitoring integrations for Meraki, Fortinet, VeloCloud, Aruba, and Juniper Mist; and new cloud integrations for Alibaba Cloud, OVHcloud, Scaleway, Nebius AI Cloud, Vercel, Google Cloud Run Jobs, and Azure AI Foundry. Feature Flags and Experiments are now GA, and Pipeline Simulation and Fleet Automation improvements simplify OTel collector management at scale.
