Infrastructure Monitoring | Datadog
Feature Overview
Datadog’s SaaS-based infrastructure monitoring provides metrics, visualizations, and alerting to ensure your engineering teams can maintain, optimize, and secure your cloud or hybrid environments. With extensive coverage of popular technologies, a simple deployment process that requires little maintenance, an easy-to-use interface, and deep security insights, Datadog helps teams communicate and troubleshoot more effectively.
Complete coverage of any stack
- Deploy everywhere—including on-premise, hybrid, edge, and multi-cloud environments
- Access vendor-backed integrations for Kubernetes, serverless platforms, and over 900 other popular technologies
- Slice-and-dice complex infrastructure easily with tag-based search and analytics
Monitoring that’s simple to deploy and effortless to manage
- Deploy and start monitoring without any need for professional services or extensive training
- Promote adoption across your organization with our intuitive user interface that requires no query language and can be used by anyone
- Reduce alert fatigue with AIOps that correlates events and automatically surface issues from the noise
Deep visibility into infrastructure performance
- Track tens of thousands of infrastructure metrics out-of-the-box
- See continuous historical records, even on infrastructure that doesn’t exist anymore
- Troubleshoot more quickly with one-click correlation of related metrics, traces, logs and security signals from across the stack
Simplify troubleshooting of infrastructure issues
- Diagnose infrastructure issues and help speed up your incident response workflows
- Track configuration changes across multi-cloud environments to ensure consistency
- Understand and fix tagging issues to close attribution gaps
Secure your cloud infrastructure
- Assess and enhance your security posture with continuous configuration checks across your cloud accounts, hosts, and containers
- Track and fulfill audit requirements with out-of-the-box support for over 15 compliance frameworks including PCI DSS, SOC 2, HIPAA, GDPR, and CIS
- Automatically detect and prioritize cloud vulnerabilities based on potential business impact, deep observability context, and Datadog’s curated security research
- Visualize your cloud resources and their associated security risks at a glance with a comprehensive resource inventory
Monitor all your metrics
- Supplement out-of-the-box infrastructure metrics with custom metrics like revenue or customer behavior
- Ingest all your custom metrics and index only those valuable for querying to balance cost and visibility
- Summarize behavior across your entire infrastructure using distribution metrics to calculate globally accurate percentiles
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Resources
EBOOK Monitoring in the Cloud eBook](/content/resources/monitoring-in-the-cloud-ebook/index.html)
TESTIMONIAL Airbnb: Airbnb's data-driven decision making with Ben Hughes](/content/product/infrastructure-monitoring/#/index.html)
TESTIMONIAL DraftKings: Scaling for NFL Sunday using Datadog](/content/product/infrastructure-monitoring/#/index.html)
BLOG The power of tagged metrics](/content/blog/the-power-of-tagged-metrics/index.html)
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