What is Datadog APM?
Datadog provides a cloud monitoring service that integrates metrics, traces, and logs from applications, tools, and services. It offers visibility into any stack or application at any scale. The platform unifies observability and security to support various operational needs.
Why use it in the API Lifecycle?
- Infrastructure Monitoring: Monitor infrastructure from a high-level overview down to deep details.
- Log Management: Analyze and explore logs for rapid troubleshooting of issues.
- Application Performance Monitoring (APM): Monitor, optimize, and investigate application performance.
- Network Monitoring: Analyze network traffic patterns across cloud environments.
- Synthetic Monitoring: Proactively monitor critical application features.
- Security: Provide unified security and observability to defend against AI-powered attacks.
Best Practices
- Correlate your API logs with trace IDs so you can view the exact debug logs for a specific failing transaction.
