October 5, 2024

Datadog – An Azure Native ISV Service, that brings the facility of Datadog’s observability capabilities to Azure, is usually obtainable 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 straightforward to provision and handle, like every other 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 properly by our joint prospects. This service is developed and managed by Microsoft and Datadog and based mostly in your suggestions, we proceed to put money into deeper integrations to make the expertise smoother for you. Listed below are a few of the high options shipped just lately that we wish 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 a single Datadog useful resource. This simplifies the method of monitoring quite a few subscriptions as you do not 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 a single “Datadog—An Azure Native ISV Service” useful resource, click on on the Monitored Subscriptions blade beneath the Datadog organizations configurations part.

The subscription wherein the Datadog useful resource is created is monitored by default. To incorporate extra 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.

Screenshot depicting the Add Subscriptions window to select subscriptions to start monitoring with the Datadog resource

We advocate deleting redundant Datadog assets linked to the identical group and consolidating a number of subscriptions right into a single Datadog useful resource wherever potential. This may assist keep away from duplicate knowledge move 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. You must ideally delete the useful resource earlier than continuing so as to add the subscription.

A screenshot depicting a scenario where there are existing Datadog resources linked to the same organization. Users are shown a warning to remove the linked resource(s) before proceeding to add the subscription.

Click on on Add to incorporate the chosen subscriptions to the record of subscriptions being monitored by the Datadog useful resource.

Screenshot depicting the list of subscriptions monitored by the Datadog resource and the monitoring status of each. The status for subscriptions being successfully monitored is shown as

The set of tag guidelines for metrics and logs outlined for the Datadog useful resource apply to all subscriptions which might be added for monitoring. If you happen to want to reconfigure the tag guidelines at any level, verify Reconfigure rules 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.

Screenshot depicting the list of monitored resources across subscriptions that have been linked to the same Datadog organization. Also shown is the new filter to view monitored resources for specific subscriptions.

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

Screenshot depicting the management of the Datadog agent in App Services. Also shown is the new filter to view App Services present in specific subscriptions.

Try Monitor virtual machines using the Datadog agent and Monitor App Services using 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 record. Within the Monitored Subscriptions blade, select the subscription you now 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.

Screenshot depicting the Remove Subscriptions functionality in the Monitored Subscription blade.

Log forwarder

The automated log forwarding functionality obtainable out of the field with Datadog’s native integration on Azure eliminates time-consuming steps that require you to setup extra infrastructure and write customized code.

We’re always working to help all resource categories 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 move to Datadog.

Cloud Safety Posture Administration

Within the Datadog Azure Native integration, enabling Cloud Safety Posture Administration (CSPM) on your Azure Assets is an easy 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 may be disabled at any level.

Screenshot depicting the Cloud Security Posture Management setting in the Datadog resource.

You possibly can study extra about Datadog’s CSPM product here

Mute monitor for anticipated digital machine shutdowns

Think about alerts being despatched for anticipated VM shutdowns and waking you up in the midst of the evening. Yikes! Now, with simply the press of a checkbox, you’ll be able to keep away from situations 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.

Screenshot depicting the mute monitor setting in the Metrics and Logs blade for expected Virtual Machine shutdowns.

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

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