As of Oct 15, Datadog's Scout 1.0 is a GLM-5.3 Flash model post-trained with reinforcement learning to investigate production alerts, and it powers Bits AI's investigations.
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Datadog introduces Scout 1.0, an SRE investigation model it says matches frontier models at 3-8x lower inference cost
Datadog published this on Oct 15, 2026 (source: datadoghq.com).
Datadog's Scout 1.0 is a GLM-5.3 Flash model post-trained with reinforcement learning to investigate production alerts, and it powers Bits AI's investigations. Datadog's own benchmark says Scout 1.0 medium matches GPT-6.1 Sol high and Claude Opus 5.5 high at an estimated 3-8x lower inference cost. Datadog published a technical report.