AzureFunBytes Episode 45 - Observing @Azure with @DatadogHQ, with guest @ryan_maclean
Tags: azure, monitoring, cloud, beginners
Published: 2021-06-03 19:16:02

AzureFunBytes is a weekly opportunity to learn more about the fundamentals and foundations that make up Azure. It's a chance for me to understand more about what people across the Azure organization do and how they do it. Every week we get together at 11 AM Pacific on [Microsoft LearnTV](https://cda.ms/226) and learn more about Azure.

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This week I welcome once again [Datadog](https://cda.ms/29B) Developer Evangelist [Ryan MacLean](https://twitter.com/ryan_maclean) to discuss monitoring, observation, and how to integrate [Datadog with Azure](https://cda.ms/29z). Developers and Ops teams require insight into how their deployed applications are performing.  By utilizing [Datadog](https://cda.ms/29B) with your Azure deployments, on-prem, or even in a multi-cloud solution, you'll get a single dashboard to see all the infrastructure you are managing. Datadog is like many of our partner's [SaaS (Software as a Service](https://cda.ms/29F)) offerings that can be configured via the [Azure Marketplace](https://cda.ms/29D).  Once your [security](https://docs.datadoghq.com/integrations/azure/?tab=azurecliv20) and [metrics ingestion](https://cda.ms/29J) are configured, you can begin getting information directly into your Datadog dashboard.  One of my favorite features of Datadog is the "social" aspect to incidents or changes in your infrastructure.  When something new happens like a [Kubernetes](https://www.datadoghq.com/blog/announcing-aks/) node going offline, you'll be able to find the incident and leave a comment for other team members on what specifically happened.

Agenda:

• Logging and aggregation
• Tracing and instrumentation
• Roll-up and infrastructure metrics
• SLOs and error budgets 
• Incident management workflow for all of the above

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[00:06:09 - Meet Ryan](https://youtu.be/pzhFBr0E6Ts?t=369)
[00:14:51 - Signing up for Datadog](https://youtu.be/pzhFBr0E6Ts?t=891)
[00:19:36 - Reputation of your apps](https://youtu.be/pzhFBr0E6Ts?t=1176)
[00:29:52 - Granular visibility into all Azure backend services](https://youtu.be/pzhFBr0E6Ts?t=1792)
[00:36:24 - AKS and Datadog](https://youtu.be/pzhFBr0E6Ts?t=2184)
[00:42:15 - Insight into our app performance](https://youtu.be/pzhFBr0E6Ts?t=2535)
[00:47:44 - Use the default dashboards to get started](https://youtu.be/pzhFBr0E6Ts?t=2535)
[00:51:31 - Customization](https://youtu.be/pzhFBr0E6Ts?t=3091)

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Useful Docs:

[Get $200 in free Azure Credit](https://cda.ms/219)
[Microsoft Learn: Introduction to Azure fundamentals](https://cda.ms/243)
[Microsoft Build Session: How to Monitor Your AKS Microservices With Datadog](https://cda.ms/29R)
[Sign up for Datadog](https://www.datadoghq.com/dg/monitor/azure-benefits/?utm_source=Partner&utm_medium=Nurture&utm_campaign=Partner-202105AzureFunBytes)
[Azure on Datadog](https://www.datadoghq.com/solutions/azure/)
[What is Datadog?](https://cda.ms/29B)
[New Datadog integration with Azure offers a seamless configuration experience](https://cda.ms/29C)
[Datadog Integration with Azure: Public Preview](https://cda.ms/29y)
[Manage the Datadog resource](https://cda.ms/29z)
[QuickStart: Get started with Datadog by creating new instance](https://cda.ms/29G)
[QuickStart: Link to existing Datadog organization](https://cda.ms/29H)
[Datadog on Azure Marketplace](https://cda.ms/29D)
[What is SaaS?](https://cda.ms/29F)
[Overview of Azure platform logs](https://cda.ms/29J)