Overview

Bits Assistant is an AI-powered companion in Datadog that helps you search and act across Datadog using natural language. Bits Assistant is available across the web application, mobile app, and Slack. To use Bits Assistant, make sure the Bits Assistant Access permission is enabled.

Ask Bits Assistant questions like:

• Summarize high severity incidents that have occurred in the last day
• Which services have the most errors right now?
• Show me what changed in alerts for the checkout service in the last 24 hours.
• What's causing 400 errors on the checkout endpoint in the last hour?
• How do I configure log collection for the Datadog Agent?
• Do we already have monitors for high latency on the payments service?
• Summarize the key findings from Kubernetes overview dashboard.

Skills

Bits Assistant also includes skills that help with specialized tasks.

Dashboards

Build dashboards and widgets from natural language descriptions.

Example prompts:

• Show me a dashboard of high-impact alerts from the past week and which services they affected
• Add a widget about CPU usage in the payments service

Notebooks

Create investigation notebooks and enhance existing ones with summaries and analysis.

Example prompts:

• Create an investigation for the recent spike of errors in the checkout service
• Add an executive summary for this cost spike report

Cloud Cost Management

Investigate cost changes and identify the teams or resources responsible.

Example prompts:

• Investigate why EC2 costs changed between January and February
• Which teams are responsible for the highest S3 storage costs this month?

Web Application

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

Mobile Application

1. Download the mobile app and log in.
2. Tap Bits Assistant on the home screen.
3. Start chatting with Bits Assistant in chat or voice mode.

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

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Bits AI OverviewDOCUMENTATION Coordinate incidents with Incident AIDOCUMENTATION