Comprehensive observability starts with quick instrumentation and full visibility into every layer of your stack. This year’s DASH announcements expand Datadog’s coverage from the frontend down to the physical network, with faster instrumentation, deeper digital experience monitoring, broader cloud and infrastructure integrations, and a continued commitment to OpenTelemetry across the platform.
Whether you’re instrumenting Windows hosts in a single step, tracing a request from an end user’s device to a SaaS application, monitoring new clouds like Alibaba, Nebius, and OVHcloud, or running fully vendor-neutral OTel pipelines, these features help you achieve full-stack visibility with less setup and fewer blind spots. Explore everything new in end-to-end observability below, and see our other roundup posts for the latest in AI, scale, and security.
Datadog is the OpenTelemetry-native observability platform
Get OpenTelemetry-native in-app experiences powered by semantic conventions for infrastructure and APM
Datadog now natively resolves OpenTelemetry semantic conventions across its platform. Teams running fully open source, vendor-neutral OTel pipelines get the same curated product experiences—Infrastructure Host List, Kubernetes Explorer, APM service pages, dashboards, and monitors—that previously required Datadog-native instrumentation or Datadog-specific pipeline components. Infrastructure and APM views automatically populate from OTel-native metrics and traces, giving developers and SREs consistent workflows, correlation, and analytics regardless of instrumentation source. To request early access, sign up for the Preview.
