What is Datadog?

The crucial security and monitoring platform for cloud applications is Datadog. To completely observable your apps, infrastructure, and third-party services, we combine end-to-end traces, metrics, and logs. These tools aid companies in maintaining system uptime, securing their systems, and guaranteeing the optimum user experience for their clients.

Architecture

Features

• See across systems, apps, and services

• Get full visibility into modern applications

• Analyze and explore log data in context

• Proactively monitor your user experience

• Correlate frontend performance with business impact

• Visualize traffic flow in cloud-native environments

• Get alerted on critical issues

• Share what you saw, write what you did

Installing Datadog

• Firstly start a EC2 Instance.

  

• Connect to your EC2 Instance.

  

• Now, Login to your Datadog i am using us5 region.

• After that go to the Integrations -> Agents -> Ubuntu.

  

• Run the Command of DD key which is available on datadog.

•       DD_API_KEY=04b7c020784902332026a37c6a565e31 DD_SITE="us5.datadoghq.com" bash -c "$(curl -L https://s3.amazonaws.com/dd-agent/scripts/install_script_agent7.sh)"
  

  

• Now run this command to check the status.

    sudo systemctl status datadog-agent
  

  

• Now Install Helm and Kubectl and aws cli.

    sudo snap install kubectl --classic
    sudo snap install helm --classic
    sudo snap install aws-cli   --classic
  

  

• Now configure your Aws using the Access key.

  

• Now, Create a EKS Cluster. Here's the link to How to create a EKS Cluster. CLICK HERE . (Let all settings be on default).

• After the cluster is created add node group to it. CLICK HERE

• Just follow some Network configuration while creating a node group.

  

  

  

  

• Now run this command to update your file. At the end use your cluster name.

    aws eks update-kubeconfig --region ap-south-1 --name demo
    kubectl get nodes
  

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• Create an empty datadog-values.yaml file.

  

• Put the data in the datadog-values.yaml file from Click here.

  

• DO SOME UPDATES IN THE YAML FILE.

• apiKey: # <DATADOG_API_KEY>

  appKey: # <DATADOG_APP_KEY>

  clusterName: # <CLUSTER_NAME>

  dd_url: app.datadoghq.com

• You can find all these things by doing go to search.

  

  

• Now run these commands.

    sudo snap install helm --classic
    helm repo add datadog https://helm.datadoghq.com
    helm repo update
  

• You have to insert the API key.

• So to get the API key you have to login to Datadog.

• Go in integration and integrate the the kubernetes

• Go to the Integration and then into the agent after this select the Kubernetes service.

• Click on the select API key and use it.

  

• Must change the site in the command and release name.

    helm install datadog-deploy -f datadog-values.yaml --set datadog.site='us5.datadoghq.com' --set datadog.apiKey=----- datadog/datadog
  

  

• The setup is completed.