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Datadog

Cloud-scale monitoring for infrastructure, apps, and security in one platform.

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Monitoring Security Observability
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Overview

Cloud-scale monitoring and security platform for infrastructure, apps, and logs.

Key Features

  • Unified metrics, logs, traces, and security events in one platform
  • Auto-instrumentation APM for 15+ languages with distributed tracing
  • 700+ built-in integrations for cloud, infrastructure, and SaaS tools
  • Cloud Security Management for misconfigs and runtime threats
  • Synthetic monitoring for proactive uptime testing
  • AI-powered anomaly detection and alert correlation

Real-World Workflows

End-to-end request tracing for a microservice

  1. 1Install the Datadog agent as a DaemonSet in Kubernetes
  2. 2Enable APM auto-instrumentation via pod annotations
  3. 3Use Service Map to visualise dependencies between microservices
  4. 4Correlate a slow trace with the corresponding pod logs automatically
  5. 5Set latency SLOs and get alerted when error budget burns down

Infrastructure cost and performance dashboard

  1. 1Enable AWS, GCP, or Azure integration to pull cloud metrics
  2. 2Use Cloud Cost Management to attribute spending per team or service
  3. 3Build a dashboard combining cost, CPU, and request volume
  4. 4Set up budget alerts to notify on unexpected spend increases

Getting Started

# Install agent on Linux:
DD_API_KEY=<YOUR_KEY> DD_SITE='datadoghq.com' \
  bash -c "$(curl -L https://install.datadoghq.com/scripts/install_script_agent7.sh)"

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