Infrastructure and application monitoring with Datadog

Datadog is an observability service that provides detailed analytics for infrastructure, databases, applications, and services. Just like New Relic, Datadog is a full-stack platform that allows all-around monitoring that provides great insights into the health of an application and infrastructure.

Although both Datadog and New Relic are similar in almost all aspects, both of them have some benefits over each other. For example, a popular opinion is that while New Relic is great at Application Performance Monitoring (APM), Datadog is stronger at infrastructure monitoring.

In short, both these platforms are great for most purposes and you can choose to use any of them or maybe some other tool/platform based on your needs.

Getting ready

Just like in the previous recipe, we will use the catalog application that we have built throughout this book. In essence, the application to be used does not matter here; it should just...