Datadog Container Monitoring | Datadog

Container Security and Monitoring

Monitor your Kubernetes stack in its entirety and resolve critical issues in real time. Identify risky service misconfigurations and mitigate legitimate threats to your Kubernetes resources.

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Why Datadog?

Real-Time Threat Detection

Detect and analyze malicious activity in real time. Improve your security and compliance posture


No Query Language Required

Users can create custom detection rules through our simple rules editor — no query language required


Out-Of-The-Box Dashboards

Nearly instant time to value for both set up and investigation


Enterprise Scale & Reliability

Whatever your scale or use cases, take advantage of our SaaS platform that’s always prepared to handle more


900+ Turn-Key Integrations, Including

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Product Benefits

Automatically Detect Security Threats and Misconfigurations in Real Time

  • Immediately flag threats, catch misconfigurations, and enable threshold and anomaly detection with no explicit set up
  • Discover security issues at log ingestion and continuously; never on schedules or after costly indexing
  • Ingest, normalize, and enrich logs, as well as third-party security alerts, to accelerate investigations
  • Monitor the security of all layers of your cloud environment: infrastructure, hosts, containers, and applications

Full-Stack Defense Across Apps, Workloads, and Infrastructure

  • Track conformance easily with out-of-the-box cloud and infrastructure industry benchmarking rules
  • See your security posture in full context with continuous scans across cloud accounts, hosts, and containers
  • Uncover threats in your hosts and containers with performant, in-kernel analysis of your workload activity
  • Analyze everything without the cost of indexing and retaining all of the data
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Monitor Your Containers More Effectively

  • Automatically detect and monitor your containers as quickly as they are created and destroyed
  • Easily analyze the health of all your containers distributed across any cloud environment in a single pane of glass with the cluster agent
  • Avoid resource contention and deficiency by drilling into individual containers running hot with 1 click
  • Collect, monitor, and visualize high-granularity metrics from all your containers at 15s. granularity for 15 months – including CPU, I/O, and memory

Gain Deeper Insights into Your Container Orchestration

  • Enhance visibility into container orchestration with the live container view
  • Optimize horizontal auto-scaling by connecting Datadog to your HPA and collecting request rate, latency, and available network bandwidth
  • Easily detect clusters over or under-allocating available resources via the auto-generated container map
  • Improve operational costs and reduce excess capacity based on high-granularity historical data
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Enhance Visibility with Datadog

  • Monitor your full stack in one place and create custom, drag-and-drop, real-time dashboards within seconds
  • Seamlessly navigate between your logs, infrastructure metrics, and application traces
  • Quickly deploy the agent across your entire cluster through our Helm Chart or DaemonSet
  • Automatically detect services running in Kubernetes clusters and monitor them no matter where they spin up