Blogsby GlyphWhen upserts don’t update but still write: Debugging Postgres performance at scale
When a high-volume upsert doubled disk writes, Datadog engineers traced the issue to Postgres WAL behavior and rewrote the query to eliminate hidden costs.
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When an AI agent came knocking: Catching malicious contributions in Datadog’s open source repos
Learn how Datadog detected and resolved issues from hackerbot-claw, an AI-powered automated attack campaign.
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Designing MCP tools for agents: Lessons from building Datadog’s MCP server
We share lessons learned building Datadog’s MCP server, from designing agent-friendly tools and managing context windows to using queries instead of raw data retrieval.