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11 lines
733 B
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title: "Datadog"
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ring: assess
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quadrant: platforms-and-aoe-services
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After realizing that AWS CloudWatch isn't flexible enough, and running our own metrics aggregation, monitoring and altering isn't something we want to do ourselves, we decided to give Datadog a try.
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Datadog is very simple to set up and retrieves metrics from the AWS API (and many other integrations) and from an agent running on the EC2 instances.
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On top of that, it comes with many plugins for services such as Apache, NGINX and ElasticSearch, allowing us to track all important metrics without much effort.
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Creating dashboards, setting up alarms and integrating into other applications (such as ticket systems) is easy to do and works fine.
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