Datadog – An Azure Native ISV Service, that brings the facility of Datadog’s observability capabilities to Azure, is mostly out there since 2021. The natively built-in service means that you can monitor and diagnose points along with your Azure assets by robotically sending logs and metrics to your Datadog group.

The service is simple 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 start out viewing your logs and metrics on the Datadog portal.

The service has continued to develop and has been adopted properly by our joint prospects. This service is developed and managed by Microsoft and Datadog and based mostly in your suggestions, we proceed to spend money on deeper integrations to make the expertise smoother for you. Listed here are among the high options shipped not too long ago that we want to spotlight:

Monitor a number of subscriptions with a single Datadog Useful resource

We’re excited to announce a scalable multi-subscription monitoring functionality that means that you can 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 start out 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 underneath the Datadog organizations configurations part.

The subscription wherein the Datadog useful resource is created is monitored by default. To incorporate 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 suggest deleting redundant Datadog assets linked to the identical group and consolidating a number of subscriptions right into a single Datadog useful resource wherever doable. This might assist keep away from duplicate information movement and points like throttling. For instance, within the picture proven under, there’s a useful resource named DatadogLinkingTest linked to the identical group in one of many subscriptions. It is best to ideally delete the useful resource earlier than continuing so as to add the subscription.

Click on on Add to incorporate the chosen subscriptions to the listing 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 can be added for monitoring. In the event you want to reconfigure the tag guidelines at any level, verify Reconfigure guidelines for metrics and logs.

And now you’re achieved. Go to the “Monitored Assets” blade in your Datadog useful resource and filter the subscription of your option to verify the standing of logs and metrics being despatched to Datadog for the assets in that subscription.

Likewise, agent administration expertise for App Providers and digital machines (VMs) additionally spans a number of subscriptions now. 

Try Monitor digital machines utilizing the Datadog agent and Monitor App Providers utilizing the Datadog agent as an extension.

If at any level you want to cease monitoring assets in a subscription by way of the Datadog useful resource, you’ll be able to take away the subscription from the Monitored subscriptions listing. Within the Monitored Subscriptions blade, select the subscription you not want to monitor and click on on “Take away subscriptions”. The default subscription (the one wherein the Datadog useful resource is created) can’t be eliminated.

Log forwarder

The automated log forwarding functionality out there 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’re always working to assist all useful resource classes on Azure Monitor to ship logs to Datadog. For purchasers who’ve setup monitoring tag guidelines in an Azure subscription, new useful resource varieties or classes get robotically enrolled for sending logs, with out the necessity for purchasers to manually do any modifications to allow new useful resource varieties. As of as we speak, the native integration on Azure helps logs from 126 useful resource varieties to movement to Datadog.

Cloud Safety Posture Administration

Within the Datadog Azure Native integration, enabling Cloud Safety Posture Administration (CSPM) on your Azure Assets is a simple operation in your Datadog useful resource. Navigate to the Cloud Safety Posture Administration blade, click on on the checkbox to allow CSPM and click on Save. The setting could be disabled at any level.

You may be taught extra about Datadog’s CSPM product right here. 

Mute monitor for anticipated digital machine shutdowns

Think about alerts being despatched for anticipated VM shutdowns and waking you up in the course of the evening. Yikes! Now, with simply the press of a checkbox, you’ll be able to keep away from eventualities the place Datadog’s catastrophe prevention alert notifications get triggered throughout scheduled shutdowns. To mute the monitor for anticipated Azure Digital Machine shutdowns, choose the checkbox proven under within the Metrics and Logs blade.

Hope you’re excited to check out all of the cool options highlighted on this weblog!

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