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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.

Introducing our AWS 1-click integration

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

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.

Monitor Amazon Managed Streaming for Apache Kafka with Datadog

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

Monitor Amazon EKS on AWS Fargate with Datadog

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

Monitor your Arm VMs with Datadog

Use the Datadog Agent for Arm to monitor your scalable compute workloads.

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.

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.

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 ...

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 ...

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.

Monitor your AWS ECS platform with Convox and Datadog

Learn how you can introduce observability to your organization through monitoring

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 ...

Monitoring AWS Lambda functions with Datadog

Learn how you can start monitoring your AWS Lambda serverless applications and functions with Datadog.

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, Amazon's MySQL-compatible database, can help your infrastructure ...

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 Medium monitors DynamoDB performance

In this article we share with you DynamoDB lessons that Medium learned over the last few years, and discuss ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 t he more ...

Triggered Alerts in Datadog - providing context to alerts

Datadog's new Triggered Alert screen works to make available important contextual information with one click ...

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

AWS EBS performance issues are complex to understand, but monitoring can help you detect and resolve AWS EBS ...

Getting optimal performance with AWS EBS Provisioned IOPS

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

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