Last updated: July 5, 2026
About Darkplane
Darkplane is the control room for AI-assisted development. It governs the left side of your software lifecycle: what AI builds, and feeds production context back to the next change.
Organizations advance through the six levels of agentic software engineering — from AI-assisted code completion to autonomous development loops. Most teams today operate at Level 2 (AI-generated, human-reviewed), where AI writes complete functions or files and humans review every change before merge. Darkplane provides the visibility and measurement infrastructure needed at each stage.
As coding accelerates with AI assistance, Darkplane shows what your coding agents build, what that costs, and whether AI-written changes hold up in production — linking every session to the PR it produced and every incident back to the change that caused it. By connecting to observability (logs, traces, and metrics) and Agent0, Darkplane helps close the loop from PR to production.
The first Darkplane capability is AI Coding Insights, providing visibility into the coding stage of your AI-assisted software lifecycle. It tracks adoption, cost, productivity, and session-level detail for Claude Code and Cursor, enabling measurement-based decisions about how your team uses AI coding tools. More capabilities are on the way, extending this visibility across the rest of your development lifecycle.
Darkplane reads the tools your engineers already use and is OpenTelemetry-native, keeping your data under your control.
Further Reading
- About AI Coding Insights: Track adoption, cost, productivity, and sessions for Claude Code and Cursor.
- Set Up AI Coding Insights: Connect Claude Code, Cursor, and GitHub to Dash0.
- Track Cost: See spend by model, team, and user.
- Track Adoption: Understand who uses AI coding tools and how adoption is spreading.
- Measure Productivity: Connect spend to velocity with cycle time metrics.
- Analyze Tools & Skills: See which tools, MCP servers, and skills developers use.
- Explore Sessions: Drill into individual sessions to understand detailed usage.