Businesses right now are managing complicated, distributed environments and want a ubiquitous computing platform for all workloads that may meet them the place they’re. We’ve seen an growing want for patrons to not solely deploy, handle, and function throughout on-premises and a number of clouds, but additionally to have higher visibility and insights throughout all IT investments spanning cloud to edge.
Today, we’re delivering improved observability and administration with the overall availability of our enhanced Microsoft Azure Arc integration with Datadog. Building on our established collaboration, we’re natively integrating Datadog with Azure Arc to fulfill prospects the place they’re and supply wealthy insights from Azure Arc–enabled assets straight into Datadog dashboards. Customers can monitor real-time information throughout cloud migrations and efficiency of functions working each within the public cloud and in hybrid or multicloud environments.
Benefits of Azure Arc integration with Datadog
With the Azure Arc integration with Datadog, prospects can:
- Monitor the connection standing and agent model of Azure Arc–enabled servers, wherever they’re working.
- Automatically add Azure tags to related hosts in Datadog for extra context.
- Identify which Azure Arc–enabled servers have the Datadog Agent put in.
- Deploy the Datadog Agent onto your Azure Arc–enabled servers as an extension.
- Get unified billing for the Datadog service by means of Azure subscription invoicing.
Datadog is a cloud-scale monitoring and safety platform for large-scale functions that aggregates information throughout your whole stack with greater than 600 integrations for centralized visibility and quicker troubleshooting on dynamic architectures. This supplies builders and operations groups observability into each layer of their functions on Azure, so that they diagnose efficiency points rapidly.
When Datadog first turned an Azure Native ISV Service, it allowed prospects to streamline their expertise for buying, configuring, and managing Datadog straight contained in the Azure portal. It lowered the training curve for utilizing Datadog to observe the well being and efficiency of your functions in Azure and units prospects up for a profitable cloud migration or modernization.
For many shoppers, hybrid deployments are a sturdy and long-term technique as a result of elements akin to latency and compliance necessities, and we’re dedicated to assembly prospects wherever they’re. With Azure Arc, we offer a constant set of instruments and providers for patrons to increase cloud expertise throughout your distributed infrastructure. More than 12,000 prospects are utilizing Azure Arc, double the quantity a yr in the past. By partnering with organizations like Datadog, we’re unlocking much more innovation and bringing Azure providers into the instruments our prospects are already utilizing.
Enhanced Azure Arc integration options
Features obtainable with right now’s basic availability embrace:
Monitor the Arc connection standing and agent model
Customers can simply determine any Azure Arc–enabled assets that aren’t in a related state. You may also arrange Datadog screens to provide you with a warning instantly if the connection is unhealthy. Before this new integration, Azure Arc assets would seem like another digital machine on-premises or in Azure. Now, you possibly can entry important metadata to make sure your Azure Arc–enabled Windows and Linux servers, SQL servers, and Kubernetes clusters are secured and related. IT operators will have the ability to troubleshoot a lot quicker if a useful resource is disconnected and might rapidly restore the connectivity to Azure Arc.
Datadog may also present which hosts are working an older model of Azure Arc. It then turns into straightforward to replace the agent utilizing Azure Update Management and make the most of Azure Automation for up to date updates to the Azure Arc agent every time there’s a new model.
Automatically add Azure tags for straightforward administration and compliance monitoring
A well-liked good thing about Azure Arc is utilizing tags in Azure Resource Manager. Many organizations tag on-premises assets by value middle or datacenter server teams which can be topic to particular laws or necessities. Tags additionally create an audit path to assist hint the historical past of a specific useful resource and determine potential safety points when performing audits.
With the Azure Arc integration, Datadog can construct wealthy visualizations and actionable alerts utilizing the tags you’ve already created for Azure Arc–enabled assets. Now, whenever you carry out patching or updates for Azure Arc–enabled servers, you get a lot richer insights to assist validate software program patches and troubleshoot software points.
Easily determine which Azure Arc–enabled servers have the Datadog Agent
Azure Arc brings your hybrid and multicloud servers, Kubernetes clusters, and information providers right into a single dashboard for seamless administration between environments. Aside from grouping assets with Azure Resource Manager, Azure Arc–enabled assets profit from Azure role-based entry management (RBAC), so completely different IT and developer groups can simply delegate entry to their functions. For a centralized IT monitoring workforce, now you can guarantee your Azure Arc–enabled assets have the Datadog Agent by cross-referencing these servers with agent information to get a real-time view of which Arc assets have Datadog Agent reporting.
Learn extra about integrating Datadog and Azure Arc
Read extra concerning the integration between Datadog and Azure Arc and entry the Datadog’s Azure native integration service on Azure Marketplace.
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