Datadog – An Azure Native ISV Service, that brings the facility of Datadog’s observability capabilities to Azure, is mostly accessible since 2021. The natively built-in service lets you monitor and diagnose points along with your Azure sources by robotically sending logs and metrics to your Datadog group.
The service is straightforward to provision and handle, like another 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 begin viewing your logs and metrics on the Datadog portal.
The service has continued to develop and has been adopted nicely by our joint clients. This service is developed and managed by Microsoft and Datadog and primarily based in your suggestions, we proceed to put money into deeper integrations to make the expertise smoother for you. Here are a few of the prime options shipped just lately that we want to spotlight:
Monitor a number of subscriptions with a single Datadog Resource
We are excited to announce a scalable multi-subscription monitoring functionality that lets you 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 don’t want to setup a separate Datadog useful resource in each single subscription that you just want to monitor.
To begin 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 embody further subscriptions, click on on the “Add subscriptions” button and on the window that opens, choose the subscriptions that you just wish to monitor utilizing the identical useful resource.
We advocate deleting redundant Datadog sources linked to the identical group and consolidating a number of subscriptions right into a single Datadog useful resource wherever potential. This would assist keep away from duplicate knowledge circulation 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 ought to ideally delete the useful resource earlier than continuing so as to add the subscription.
Click 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 are added for monitoring. If you want to reconfigure the tag guidelines at any level, test Reconfigure guidelines for metrics and logs.
And now you might be accomplished. Go to the “Monitored Resources” 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 Services and digital machines (VMs) additionally spans a number of subscriptions now.
Check out Monitor digital machines utilizing the Datadog agent and Monitor App Services utilizing the Datadog agent as an extension.
If at any level you want to cease monitoring sources in a subscription through the Datadog useful resource, you may take away the subscription from the Monitored subscriptions checklist. In the Monitored Subscriptions blade, select the subscription you not want to monitor and click on on “Remove 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 further infrastructure and write customized code.
We are continually working to assist all useful resource classes on Azure Monitor to ship logs to Datadog. For clients who’ve setup monitoring tag guidelines in an Azure subscription, new useful resource sorts or classes get robotically enrolled for sending logs, with out the necessity for purchasers to manually do any modifications to allow new useful resource sorts. As of as we speak, the native integration on Azure helps logs from 126 useful resource sorts to circulation to Datadog.
Cloud Security Posture Management
In the Datadog Azure Native integration, enabling Cloud Security Posture Management (CSPM) in your Azure Resources is a simple operation in your Datadog useful resource. Navigate to the Cloud Security Posture Management blade, click on on the checkbox to allow CSPM and click on Save. The setting could be disabled at any level.
You can be taught extra about Datadog’s CSPM product right here.
Mute monitor for anticipated digital machine shutdowns
Imagine alerts being despatched for anticipated VM shutdowns and waking you up in the midst of the night time. Yikes! Now, with simply the clicking of a checkbox, you may keep away from situations the place Datadog’s catastrophe prevention alert notifications get triggered throughout scheduled shutdowns. To mute the monitor for anticipated Azure Virtual Machine shutdowns, choose the checkbox proven beneath within the Metrics and Logs blade.
Hope you might be excited to check out all of the cool options highlighted on this weblog!