Datadog – An Azure Native ISV Service, that brings the ability of Datadog’s observability capabilities to Azure, is usually accessible since 2021. The natively built-in service permits you to monitor and diagnose points together with your Azure sources by mechanically sending logs and metrics to your Datadog group.
The service is simple to provision and handle, like some other Azure useful resource, utilizing the Azure Portal, Azure Command-Line Interface (CLI), software program improvement kits (SDKs), and extra. You don’t want any customized code or connectors to start out viewing your logs and metrics on the Datadog portal.
The service has continued to develop and has been adopted properly by our joint prospects. This service is developed and managed by Microsoft and Datadog and primarily based in your suggestions, we proceed to spend money on deeper integrations to make the expertise smoother for you. Listed below are a number of the high options shipped just lately that we wish to spotlight:
Monitor a number of subscriptions with a single Datadog Useful resource
We’re excited to announce a scalable multi-subscription monitoring functionality that permits you to configure monitoring for all of your subscriptions by means of a single Datadog useful resource. This simplifies the method of monitoring quite a few subscriptions as you do not want to setup a separate Datadog useful resource in each single subscription that you simply want to monitor.
To start out monitoring a number of subscriptions by means of a single “Datadog—An Azure Native ISV Service” useful resource, click on on the Monitored Subscriptions blade below the Datadog organizations configurations part.
The subscription by which the Datadog useful resource is created is monitored by default. To incorporate extra subscriptions, click on on the “Add subscriptions” button and on the window that opens, choose the subscriptions that you simply wish to monitor utilizing the identical useful resource.
We suggest deleting redundant Datadog sources linked to the identical group and consolidating a number of subscriptions right into a single Datadog useful resource wherever doable. This might assist keep away from duplicate knowledge movement and points like throttling. For instance, within the picture proven beneath, there’s a useful resource named DatadogLinkingTest linked to the identical group in one of many subscriptions. You must ideally delete the useful resource earlier than continuing so as to add the subscription.
Click on on Add to incorporate the chosen subscriptions to the checklist of subscriptions being monitored by means of the Datadog useful resource.
The set of tag guidelines for metrics and logs outlined for the Datadog useful resource apply to all subscriptions which can be added for monitoring. Should you want to reconfigure the tag guidelines at any level, test Reconfigure guidelines for metrics and logs.
And now you’re carried out. Go to the “Monitored Sources” blade in your Datadog useful resource and filter the subscription of your option to test the standing of logs and metrics being despatched to Datadog for the sources in that subscription.
Likewise, agent administration expertise for App Providers and digital machines (VMs) additionally spans a number of subscriptions now.
Take a look at Monitor digital machines utilizing the Datadog agent and Monitor App Providers utilizing the Datadog agent as an extension.
If at any level you want to cease monitoring sources in a subscription by way of the Datadog useful resource, you possibly can take away the subscription from the Monitored subscriptions checklist. Within the Monitored Subscriptions blade, select the subscription you now not want to monitor and click on on “Take away subscriptions”. The default subscription (the one by which the Datadog useful resource is created) can’t be eliminated.
Log forwarder
The automated log forwarding functionality accessible out of the field with Datadog’s native integration on Azure eliminates time-consuming steps that require you to setup extra infrastructure and write customized code.
We’re always working to help all useful resource classes on Azure Monitor to ship logs to Datadog. For patrons who’ve setup monitoring tag guidelines in an Azure subscription, new useful resource sorts or classes get mechanically enrolled for sending logs, with out the necessity for purchasers to manually do any modifications to allow new useful resource sorts. As of at present, the native integration on Azure helps logs from 126 useful resource sorts to movement to Datadog.
Cloud Safety Posture Administration
Within the Datadog Azure Native integration, enabling Cloud Safety Posture Administration (CSPM) to your Azure Sources is an easy operation in your Datadog useful resource. Navigate to the Cloud Safety Posture Administration blade, click on on the checkbox to allow CSPM and click on Save. The setting will be disabled at any level.
You possibly can study extra about Datadog’s CSPM product right here.
Mute monitor for anticipated digital machine shutdowns
Think about alerts being despatched for anticipated VM shutdowns and waking you up in the course of the night time. Yikes! Now, with simply the press of a checkbox, you possibly can keep away from situations the place Datadog’s catastrophe prevention alert notifications get triggered throughout scheduled shutdowns. To mute the monitor for anticipated Azure Digital Machine shutdowns, choose the checkbox proven beneath within the Metrics and Logs blade.
Hope you’re excited to check out all of the cool options highlighted on this weblog!
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