Reviewing Datadog APIs

In this section, we will discuss the main Datadog features that can be accessed and managed programmatically using the REST API. As mentioned earlier, anything that you can do on the Datadog UI can be accomplished from code using Datadog APIs. In a highly automated environment, that option would be very handy as all the monitoring-related activities could be consolidated on the Datadog platform. If integration from an application is not directly supported readily, then custom integration using REST APIs is one of the best options available. (There are special cases in which monitoring standards such as StatsD and JMX could be used and we will look at how to use those in the next chapter, Working with Monitoring Standards.)

Let's look at the broad categories of Datadog APIs.

Public cloud integration

By integrating with the leading public cloud platforms, AWS, Azure, and GCP, Datadog can import infrastructure information without the help of any agent...