Datadog's DASH 2026 conference announcements center on AI-powered engineering workflows. Key releases include Bits Chat for natural-language querying, dashboard and notebook generation, trace analysis, and cost investigations. Bits AI gains agentic investigation capabilities for RUM, Synthetic tests, incidents, and infrastructure diagrams. The Datadog MCP Server expands with MCP Apps for rich telemetry visualizations inside Claude, Cursor, and ChatGPT, plus new Kubernetes and APM toolsets. Pup CLI provides shell-style AI agents with OAuth-scoped access to 33+ Datadog product domains. Additional features include Bits Code Automations for scheduled code fixes, AI Impact for measuring coding assistant ROI, Agentic Onboarding for zero-friction instrumentation, AI-assisted Grok parsing, Kubernetes autoscaling improvements, and new integrations with Anthropic, OpenAI, GitHub Copilot, Cursor, and Microsoft Copilot.
