Bits Assistant in Datadog

Bits Assistant brings conversational AI to Datadog, enabling you to explore and act on your observability data using natural language. Query logs, metrics, traces, dashboards, monitors, infrastructure, and more—all from a single intelligent interface.

You can ask Bits Assistant questions such as:

• Who is on call for example-service?
• Find me the example-service dashboard.
• What is going on with example-service?
• Are there any issues with example-service's dependencies?

When relevant to your query, Bits Assistant surfaces faulty deployments, Watchdog anomalies, incidents, alerts, and more. It also expands on issues with upstream and downstream dependencies. This feature works best if your APM services are tagged by team and service.

Web Application

The Bits Assistant Access permission is required to use this feature.

To open Bits Assistant, click Ask Bits in the top-right of the navigation bar, click Bits AI in the left-side navigation panel, or use Cmd/Ctrl + I.

Some responses from Bits Assistant include a suggestions button. Clicking it displays additional queries that apply to the conversation’s context.

Mobile Application

Bits Assistant in Slack

1. Connect your Datadog account to your Slack workspace.
2. In Slack, use the /dd connect command to display a list of accounts to connect to.
3. Choose the name of your Datadog account in the dropdown.
4. Authorize additional permissions needed by Bits AI.

After setup is completed, you can send queries to @Datadog in natural language: @Datadog Are there any issues with example-service's dependencies?

Further reading

Additional helpful documentation, links, and articles:

Bits AI OverviewDOCUMENTATION Coordinate incidents with Incident AIDOCUMENTATION