Toto: Time Series Optimized Transformer for Observability

Datadog’s new AI model, Toto, marks a major leap in time series forecasting for observability. Designed with a focus on accuracy, reliability, and responsible AI use, Toto helps improve infrastructure performance by generating secure, interpretable forecasts. While it’s not built for general-purpose tasks, its architecture and pre-training corpus set new benchmarks across observability datasets. Future work includes integrating multi-modal data, enhancing model scalability, and aligning forecasting models with conversational AI for more intuitive troubleshooting and planning.