# Datadog Adopts OpenAI's Codex for Automated Code Review

OpenAI announced that Datadog, a leading cloud monitoring and security platform, is now using Codex for system-level code review. The partnership represents a significant expansion of AI-powered development tools into enterprise infrastructure management.

Codex, OpenAI's AI system that powers GitHub Copilot, translates natural language into code and can analyze existing codebases. By integrating Codex into their workflow, Datadog aims to automate portions of the code review process, potentially catching bugs, security vulnerabilities, and performance issues more quickly than manual review alone.

This matters for several reasons. First, it demonstrates that AI coding assistants are moving beyond code generation into quality assurance and review—traditionally human-intensive tasks. Second, Datadog's adoption signals growing enterprise confidence in using AI for critical infrastructure decisions. The company monitors applications for