Cloud providers collect valuable metrics for their cloud services. However, they do not necessarily retain this data for extended periods, and the ability to slice and dice this data can be limited. Therefore, it is recommended to employ a third-party monitoring service to fill in the gaps and provide more comprehensive monitoring capabilities. Furthermore, in the eventuality of utilizing a polyglot cloud, a cloud-provider-agnostic monitoring service offers a unified monitoring experience. My monitoring service of choice is Datadog. This recipe shows how easily and quickly we can connect Datadog to an AWS account and start aggregating metrics to increase the observability of our cloud-native systems.
To allow Datadog to start ...
