Monitoring is built around the system a team understands at a point in time. Engineers add endpoints, move dependencies, and change user flows every day. Over time, that creates coverage drift as monitors keep reflecting the system as it used to behave, while changing paths introduce failure modes that teams didn’t yet know to watch for.

Bits Detection automatically creates, tunes, and maintains monitors for your services. It draws on the telemetry, ownership, and deployment history Datadog already tracks, and on your source code when connected. From there, it identifies what needs coverage, sets detection rules for each endpoint, and adjusts them as systems change.

In this post, you’ll learn how Bits Detection helps you:

Identify which service paths need detectionSet detection logic from production behaviorUpdate coverage as services changeConnect detections to investigation and remediation

Identify which service paths need detection