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Best practices for securely configuring Amazon VPC

Learn best practices for configuring your Amazon VPCs to help keep them secure.

Monitor flow logs to ensure VPC security with Datadog

Learn how to use flow logs to identify and troubleshoot VPC security threats.

Send Amazon VPC flow logs to Amazon Kinesis Data Firehose and Datadog

Learn how you can send your Amazon VPC Flow Logs to Datadog via Amazon Kinesis Data Firehose for real-time log ...

Analyze VPC Flow Logs for AWS Transit Gateway in Datadog

Integrating VPC Flow Logs for AWS Transit Gateway with Datadog boosts insight into network performance and ...

Monitor your Graviton3-powered EC2 instances with Datadog

Learn how Datadog can help you monitor the performance of your workloads running on AWS's Graviton3-based EC2 ...

Monitor Amazon RDS Proxy with Datadog

Get deep visibility into your Amazon RDS Proxy client connections and query throughputs for quick ...

Announcing support for Amazon EKS Blueprints

Get comprehensive insights into the health and performance of your EKS workloads.

Announcing support for monitoring AWS Lambda Function URLs with Datadog

Learn how our support for AWS Lambda URLs can provide you with deeper insights and context around your Lambda ...

Monitor your AWS Lambda functions’ ephemeral storage usage

Learn how Datadog can help you monitor the ephemeral storage usage and configuration of your AWS Lambda ...

Datadog Serverless Monitoring for Amazon API Gateway, SQS, Kinesis, and more

Learn how Datadog Serverless Monitoring provides end-to-end visibility into the managed AWS services that ...

Elevate AWS threat detection with Stratus Red Team

Learn how you can emulate common attack techniques directly in your cloud environment with our new open source ...

Best practices for building serverless applications that follow AWS's Well-Architected Framework

Learn best practices for building serverless applications that are secure, reliable, highly performant, and ...

Designing production-ready AWS serverless applications

Learn how to design highly scalable and reliable microservice-based serverless applications.

Highlights from AWS re:Invent 2021

Check out our rundown of the top trends and topics we saw at AWS re:Invent 2021.

Monitor and optimize S3 storage with Amazon S3 Storage Lens metrics

Visualize S3 Storage Lens metrics in Datadog to optimize S3 costs and data protection.

Announcing support for Windows containers on AWS Fargate

Learn how Datadog supports monitoring your AWS Fargate on Windows environment, including metrics, distributed ...

Announcing support for Graviton2-powered AWS Fargate deployments

Learn about our day-one support for monitoring AWS Fargate powered by Graviton2, including live performance ...

Announcing Support for AWS Lambda Functions running on AWS Graviton2 processors

Learn how Datadog can help you monitor the performance of AWS Lambda functions on Graviton2—and determine ...

Announcing support for EKS Anywhere

Get full visibility into your on-premise Kubernetes workloads.

Best practices for collecting and managing serverless logs with Datadog

Learn how you can streamline the collection and management of logs from your AWS serverless environments with ...

Amazon EFS monitoring tools

Learn to use Amazon EFS monitoring tools to collect EFS metrics and logs.

EFS Monitoring with Datadog

EFS monitoring with Datadog gives you deep visibility into EFS and other AWS services.

Key metrics for monitoring Amazon EFS

Track these EFS metrics to ensure the performance of your file systems and applications.

Monitor containerized ASP.NET Core applications on AWS Fargate

Learn how to deploy instrumented .NET Core applications on AWS Fargate.

Monitor AWS FSx audit logs with Datadog

Learn how Datadog helps you analyze your Amazon FSx for Windows File Server audit event logs for file access ...

Monitor AWS control plane API usage metrics in Datadog

Learn how to keep tabs on AWS service quota utilization and take action before issues arise.

Monitor Amazon ECS Anywhere with Datadog

Get full visibility into your containerized on-premise workloads.

Introducing Datadog's Lambda extension

Learn how Datadog's Lambda extension simplifies the process for collecting data from your Lambda functions.

Monitor AWS App Runner with Datadog

Learn how Datadog gives you deep visibility into the health, performance, and security of your AWS App Runner ...

Monitor AWS Lambda OpenTelemetry traces with Datadog

Learn how you can use the AWS managed Lambda Layer for OpenTelemetry and Datadog's X-Ray integration to ...

Datadog NPM now monitors traffic to Amazon S3, Google Cloud BigQuery, and other managed cloud services

Learn how Datadog automatically detects your managed third-party services for visibility into the health and ...

Detect unauthorized third parties in your AWS account

Learn how to use Datadog Cloud SIEM's new term detection method to secure your AWS environment against ...

Collect Amazon CloudWatch metrics faster with Datadog using CloudWatch Metric Streams

Learn how Datadog’s integration with AWS CloudWatch Metric Streams gives you faster metrics ingestion from key ...

Trace AWS event-driven serverless applications with Datadog APM

Learn about Datadog APM’s latest enhancements for AWS serverless tracing.

AWS Fargate monitoring with Datadog

Monitor your Fargate-based ECS and EKS clusters with Datadog.

How to collect metrics and logs from AWS Fargate workloads

Collect ECS Fargate and EKS Fargate metrics and logs with these tools.

Key metrics for monitoring AWS Fargate

Learn the key metrics for monitoring containers running on AWS Fargate.

Datadog automatically surfaces actionable insights into your Lambda functions

Learn how Datadog can provide you immediate actionable insights into the state of your AWS Lambda functions.

Integrate the AWS Well-Architected Tool with Datadog CSPM

Develop secure, reliable applications by integrating the Well-Architected Tool with Datadog.

Monitor Amazon EC2 Mac Instances

Use Datadog to monitor your macOS-based Amazon EC2 instances alongside your entire application development ...

Monitor Amazon EKS Distro with Datadog

Datadog gives you full visibility into Amazon EKS Distro.

Monitor AWS Lambda functions deployed using container images

Get visibility into your dynamic serverless environment—including AWS Lambda functions deployed using ...

Datadog's AWS re:Invent 2020 guide

Learn about the activities we have planned for re:Invent 2020 and the sessions we're most excited to see.

Monitor AWS Network Firewall with Datadog

Datadog gives you full visibility into traffic through AWS Network Firewall.

Manage CloudFront real-time logs in Datadog

Use Datadog to analyze real-time logs from your CloudFront distribution.

Datadog monitors Amazon Route 53

Get insights into your Amazon network’s Route 53 DNS traffic with Datadog.

AWS Distro for OpenTelemetry sends metrics and traces to Datadog

The AWS Distro for OpenTelemetry enables customers to send telemetry data to any supported backend service, ...

Best practices for monitoring AWS CloudTrail logs

Learn how to get the most out of your AWS CloudTrail audit logs.

Monitor containers on Amazon Bottlerocket with Datadog

Learn how to use Datadog to monitor Amazon Bottlerocket containers.

Monitor AWS GovCloud (US) with Datadog

Datadog is now authorized to handle your AWS GovCloud (US) monitoring operations.

Zero instrumentation serverless observability with AWS SAM and CDK integrations

Learn how you can use Datadog's integrations with AWS SAM and CDK to automatically collect metrics, traces, ...

Stream logs to Datadog with Amazon Kinesis Data Firehose

Learn how to easily stream your AWS service logs with Amazon Kinesis Data Firehose and Datadog.

Introducing our AWS 1-click integration

You can now enable AWS monitoring in Datadog with our simple 1-click integration.

Introducing Lambda Enhanced Metrics

Learn how our enhanced Lambda metrics can help optimize the performance of your serverless architectures in ...

Key metrics for monitoring AWS Lambda

Get visibility into the performance of your AWS Lambda functions with these key metrics.

Monitor AWS Step Functions with Datadog

Get full visibility into your AWS Step Functions state machines—and the AWS Lambda functions they execute.

Monitoring AWS Lambda with Datadog

Learn how to use Datadog to collect metrics, traces, and logs from your AWS Lambda functions.

Tools for collecting AWS Lambda data

Learn how you can use Amazon CloudWatch to collect and query data from your AWS Lambda functions.

Distributed tracing for AWS Lambda with Datadog APM

Get comprehensive visibility across all your Lambda functions to optimize application performance with native ...

Monitor Amazon Managed Streaming for Apache Kafka with Datadog

Learn how to monitor the components of your Amazon managed Kafka clusters with Datadog.

Monitor AWS IAM Access Analyzer findings with Datadog

Deliver AWS IAM Access Analyzer findings to your Datadog account to ensure your AWS resources are secure.

Monitor Amazon EKS on AWS Fargate with Datadog

Monitor containerized applications running on Amazon EKS using AWS Fargate with Autodiscovery and APM.

Monitor AWS Lambda Provisioned Concurrency metrics with Datadog

Explore AWS Lambda functions configured with Provisioned Concurrency from day one to help optimize your usage.

Implement monitoring as code with Datadog and CloudFormation Registry

Learn how you can automatically set up monitoring for your AWS resources with Datadog and CloudFormation ...

Datadog's AWS re:Invent 2019 guide

If you're heading to this year's AWS re:Invent, find out which sessions we're most excited about.

Analyzing Amazon MQ performance with Datadog

Use Datadog to collect Amazon MQ metrics and logs, and to monitor your brokers and destinations.

Collecting Amazon MQ metrics and logs

Collect and query Amazon MQ metrics via Amazon CloudWatch and the ActiveMQ Web Console.

How to monitor Amazon MQ

Learn the key metrics you should monitor to know that your Amazon MQ infrastructure is healthy.

Monitor your Fargate container logs with FireLens and Datadog

Learn how you can use FireLens for Amazon ECS to collect container logs generated by your Fargate tasks and ...

Monitor your Lambda functions with Datadog's Serverless Framework plugin

Track custom business metrics and get end-to-end visibility into requests across your serverless environment.

Automate workflows with Datadog's Amazon EventBridge integration

Connect EventBridge to your Datadog alert notifications to auto-remediate issues and more.

Key metrics for Amazon EKS monitoring

Get visibility into the performance and scalability of your Amazon EKS cluster with these key metrics.

Tools for collecting Amazon EKS metrics

Learn how to gather Kubernetes cluster and AWS service metrics from your EKS infrastructure.

Monitoring your EKS cluster with Datadog

Learn how to use Datadog to collect EKS cluster logs, metrics, and request traces.

Collect Amazon DocumentDB metrics and logs with Datadog

Get full insight into your Amazon DocumentDB clusters with Datadog.

Monitor Amazon MQ metrics with Datadog

Monitor your Amazon MQ brokers and destinations with Datadog.

Key ECS metrics to monitor

Understand both your ECS resource use and the status of ECS deployments with these key metrics.

Tools for ECS monitoring

Learn how to collect ECS resource and status metrics, from CloudWatch to your standard Docker toolkit.

Monitoring ECS with Datadog

Use Datadog to get visibility into ECS, and the services running on it, all on one platform.

Deploying and configuring Datadog with CloudFormation

Learn to use Datadog with AWS CloudFormation to increase observability by defining infrastructure as code.

Monitor custom serverless metrics with the Datadog Lambda extension

Learn how to create and send custom metrics from your serverless functions to Datadog.

Datadog's AWS re:Invent 2018 guide

Get the most from AWS re:Invent and see which sessions we'll be attending at the annual cloud extravaganza in ...

Monitoring Apache Spark applications running on Amazon EMR

How you can use EMR Bootstrap actions to monitor Apache Spark jobs running on Amazon EMR.

Improving trust with Datadog Log Management

Integrating Amazon Simple Email Service with Datadog to improve observability.

Key metrics for AWS monitoring

Monitor AWS services as they evolve with these key metrics.

Monitor Amazon EKS with Datadog

Monitor Amazon Elastic Container Service for Kubernetes from day one with Datadog.

Key metrics for Amazon RDS PostgreSQL monitoring

Learn how to identify and track key metrics for Amazon RDS PostgreSQL monitoring in this guide.

Collecting RDS metrics from PostgreSQL databases

How to query RDS metrics from CloudWatch and directly from the PostgreSQL database engine.

PostgreSQL RDS monitoring with Datadog

In this post, we'll show you how set up PostgreSQL RDS monitoring with Datadog.

Collecting Amazon EBS metrics

Learn how to query and collect key Amazon EBS resource metrics.

Key metrics for Amazon EBS monitoring

Identify and monitor key metrics for your Amazon EBS volumes.

Monitoring Amazon EBS volumes with Datadog

Learn how to use Datadog to monitor Amazon EBS metrics.

Monitor ECS applications on AWS Fargate with Datadog

You can now monitor containerized applications running in AWS Fargate with Autodiscovery and high-resolution ...

New in Datadog: Managing integrations via API calls

Programmatically manage your Datadog integrations for AWS, Slack, PagerDuty, and custom webhooks.

Datadog is in the AWS Serverless Application Repository

Datadog includes two serverless applications in the new AWS Serverless Applications Repository.

Monitor AWS Health status with Datadog

Our new AWS Health integration enables you to gain increased visibility into the status of your AWS resources.

Monitor AWS Network Load Balancer with Datadog

Monitor AWS Network Load Balancer to keep track of key transport-level routing metrics.

Key metrics for EC2 monitoring

Identify and monitor key performance metrics for your Amazon EC2 instances.

How to collect EC2 metrics

Learn how to query and collect key EC2 resource metrics and status checks.

How to monitor EC2 instances with Datadog

Learn how to use Datadog to monitor Amazon EC2 metrics.

Monitor AWS Auto Scaling with Datadog

Monitor AWS Auto Scaling to follow automated changes to your EC2 fleet and optimize them for your ...

Monitor Amazon's Application Load Balancer with Datadog

Monitor Amazon's Application Load Balancer to measure your backends' traffic, performance, and health.

How to monitor Lambda functions

Learn how you can use Datadog to monitor the performance of your serverless applications running on AWS ...

Secure (and usable) multi-AWS account IAM setup

If you are part of the team managing the AWS infrastructure at your organization, you’ve likely had to wrestle ...

Monitor AWS S3 with Datadog

Monitor AWS S3 metrics for insight into the performance and usage of your cloud storage service.

Monitor AWS CodeDeploy with Datadog

Monitor AWS CodeDeploy along with other Amazon services and application components.

CloudCheckr + Datadog: Better rightsizing of cloud resources

Send Datadog metrics to CloudCheckr to get better insight into cloud usage.

Monitor Amazon Kinesis Firehose performance

Datadog now integrates with Amazon Kinesis Firehose

Monitor Amazon Elasticsearch Service with Datadog

Our integration helps you visualize and alert on key performance metrics.

3 clear trends in ECS adoption

Our new research shows Amazon's ECS steadily gaining steam

Monitor AWS Redshift with Datadog

Monitor AWS Redshift, the fully-managed data warehouse designed to handle petabyte-scale datasets, with ...

Monitor your AWS Trusted Advisor Service Limit Checks with Datadog

Monitor AWS Trusted Advisor Service Limit Check metrics easily and display them on an out-of-the-box dashboard ...

Monitor your AWS OpsWorks configuration management

Monitor AWS OpsWorks metrics with Datadog to visualize and assess how effectively OpsWorks is managing your ...

Monitor AWS SES with Datadog

Datadog integrates with AWS SES, allowing you to receive alerts on all aspects of your SES performance.

Monitor AWS VPC with Datadog

Monitor AWS VPC components with Datadog, correlate metrics across your environment, and gain actionable ...

Top 5 ways to improve your AWS EC2 performance

Learn about the five most common EC2 performance issues, why they occur, how to detect them, and best ...

AWS collaboration: RDS enhanced metrics

Amazon RDS enhanced metrics are now available in your infrastructure dashboards via a collaboration between ...

Collecting ElastiCache metrics + its Redis/Memcached metrics

This article covers three different ways to access ElastiCache metrics from AWS CloudWatch, as well as the ...

How Coursera monitors ElastiCache and Memcached performance

Go behind the scenes with Coursera's engineering team to learn best practices for using ElastiCache, keeping ...

Monitoring ElastiCache performance metrics with Redis or Memcached

Optimizing your ElastiCache performance can significantly increase your application's performance and user ...

How to collect Aurora metrics

Collect all the Aurora metrics you need for production database monitoring, both from AWS CloudWatch and from ...

Monitor Aurora using Datadog

This tutorial shows you how to connect and monitor Aurora on RDS with Datadog for comprehensive alerting and ...

Monitoring Amazon Aurora performance metrics

Learn how monitoring Amazon Aurora can help your infrastructure performance. Track key metrics on query ...

The Docker monitoring problem

Docker is taking the infrastructure world by storm. But, Docker monitoring can be significantly more difficult ...

How to collect RDS MySQL metrics

Collect MYSQL metrics as well as Cloudwatch metrics for a comprehensive view of RDS performance. This post ...

Monitor RDS MySQL using Datadog

Go beyond ad hoc metric inspection with a monitoring system that integrates and correlates RDS metrics with ...

Monitoring RDS MySQL performance metrics

Users have access to hundreds of RDS MySQL performance metrics, but it's not easy to tell what you should ...

AWS outage? Datadog alerts you to changes in AWS status

No service is foolproof. Even the most reliable ones, like Amazon Web Services, can experience outages. Even ...

How to collect AWS ELB metrics

We explain three ways to access ELB metrics easily and how using access logs can aid in investigating specific ...

Monitor ELB performance with Datadog

Datadog lets you collect and view ELB metrics, access their historical evolution, and slice and dice them ...

Top ELB health and performance metrics

ELB performance is critical to any scalable infrastructure as the first gateway between users and your ...

Datadog Guide to AWS re:Invent 2015

Datadog is here with our session picks for the conference

Monitor Docker on AWS ECS

ECS is a new service from AWS that automatically manages your Docker containers for you. Datadog worked ...

How to collect DynamoDB metrics

This part of the article is all about collecting native DynamoDB metrics, available exclusively through ...

Top DynamoDB performance metrics

In order to correctly provision your DynamoDB machines, and to keep them running smoothly, it is important to ...

Monitor Amazon Kinesis performance

If you are using Kinesis in production, you probably want to know right away if there are any slowdowns or ...

Monitor ElastiCache with AWS metrics + native metrics

With our new ElastiCache integration, you can monitor ElastiCache metrics along with the native metrics from ...

Datadog in the wild: Fixing slow writes on AWS Elastic Block Store

Learn how to avoid ever having storage problems affect your users using AWS Elastic Block Store (EBS) and good ...

Monitor AWS SNS metrics with Datadog

This integration lets Datadog send and receive AWS SNS notifications, correlate messages with AWS SNS metrics ...

Monitor Amazon SQS message traffic with Datadog

Learn how to monitor Amazon SQS message queues, their traffic patterns, and the state of the messages to ...

See the performance impact of AWS changes with CloudTrail and Datadog

Understand the performance of your applications on AWS with CloudTrail and Datadog. Visualize and graph your ...

Deploy Datadog on AWS Elastic Beanstalk

Learn how to deploy the Datadog Agent and monitor AWS Elastic Beanstalk.

Understand AWS CloudWatch metrics and Datadog measurements

Gain additional data collection capabilities for your AWS Cloudwatch metrics with Datadog. Learn more.

AWS re:Invent talk: Instrumenting application stacks in a dynamically scaling environment

Learn why gaining visibility into an application stack's performance is necessary and challenging in a scaling ...

Your entire AWS infrastructure's health at a glance

Learn how to quickly assess the health of your entire Amazon infrastructure including deep EC2 monitoring.

Key AWS ELB Monitoring Metrics

AWS ELB monitoring can be daunting. Learn to monitor ELB metrics in a sane way. Read more...

Learning from AWS failure

Failures are a fact of life. AWS failure just gets more publicity. Instead let's focus on the more interesting ...

Are all AWS ECUs created equal?

In this post we look at the data publicly available about Elastic Compute Units (ECUs) and draw conclusions ...

AWS CPU Steal: How to detect it with Datadog

CPU steal is a fundamental property of virtual environments, but may lead to inconsistent performance for the ...

Understanding AWS stolen CPU and how it affects your apps

Is AWS stolen CPU causing your AWS EBS Performance issues? Learn how to detect and resolve CPU stolen-related ...

AWS EBS latency and IOPS: The surprising truth

Performance issues with Amazon Web Services' Elastic Block Storage (EBS) are complex. Learn how to detect and ...

Detecting AWS EBS performance issues with Datadog

Learn how to detect and resolve AWS EBS performance issues.

Getting optimal performance with AWS EBS Provisioned IOPS

Optimize your AWS EBS performance by using Provisioned IOPS. Learn more!

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