Connect Jira with observability tools

DevOps observability is a practice within DevOps that focuses on gaining comprehensive insights into the behavior, performance, and health of applications and infrastructure. Observability is achieved by collecting, aggregating, and analyzing data from various sources within a system, including logs, metrics, and traces. In this section, we will learn how to connect Jira with logging and monitoring tools to correlate Jira issues with problems.

This recipe has the following objectives:

• Configuring a Datadog account with a Jira instance
• Demonstrating a Jira issue created from Datadog

Getting ready

To execute this recipe, you will need the following:

• Jira administration permissions in order to add the GitLab application
• A Datadog account

How to do it…

To implement the Datadog integration, we need to perform the following steps:

1. Install the Jira integration in Datadog.
2. Create an application...