AzureFunBytes Reminder - Observing @Azure with Datadog, with @ryan_maclean - 06/03/2021
Tags: azure, monitoring, cloud, beginners
Published: 2021-06-02 14:01:33

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.

When: June 03, 2021 11 AM Pacific / 2 PM Eastern
Where: [Microsoft LearnTV](https://cda.ms/226)

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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 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 a 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.

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Our agenda will be to cover monitoring Azure with a focus on AKS and touch on Arc via: 

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

In February of 2021, Azure was proud to [announce a Datadog integration with Azure (Public Preview](https://cda.ms/29y)). 

**From that announcement**: Customers can now run Datadog as a service on Azure through the Azure Marketplace. Together, we have built a best-in-class provisioning, onboarding, and management experience for our customers. This is in addition to unified billing for the Datadog SaaS app through the [Azure Marketplace](https://cda.ms/29D). 

Through this unified experience, customers will be able to:

- Provision a new Datadog organization and configure their Azure resources to send logs to Datadog—a fully managed setup with no infrastructure for customers to setup and operate. 

- Streamline single-sign on (SSO) to Datadog—a separate sign-on from the Datadog portal is no longer required.

- Seamlessly send logs and metrics to Datadog. Today, customers must set up event hubs and write Azure Functions to receive logs from Azure Monitor and send them to Datadog. 

- Easily install the Datadog agent on VM hosts through a single-click.

- Get unified billing of Datadog SaaS through Azure subscription invoicing.

So join Ryan and I this week so we can learn how to stop chasing our tails and start trusting Datadog for all the information we need on our Azure deployments.

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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)
[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)