Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) is committed to providing comprehensive solutions through strategic partners that enable enterprises to build, deploy, and scale cloud applications with confidence. As observability becomes increasingly critical in modern cloud environments, we’re excited to announce the availability of our integration with Datadog for enhanced OCI monitoring and observability.

With this integration, OCI and Datadog customers can export observability metrics, logs, and traces from OCI to Datadog for a unified view of their infrastructure, including multi-cloud and hybrid environments. With ready-to-go dashboards and pre-configured alerts, you can quickly get started monitoring and troubleshooting your OCI workloads in Datadog. By combining OCI’s robust cloud services with Datadog’s advanced monitoring and analytics, Datadog users can achieve better insights and quicker responses to performance issues.

Key features of the OCI-Datadog integration

1. Real-time metrics and logs: Monitor your OCI environment in real time by sending key performance metrics and log data directly to Datadog.
2. Easy setup: With our ready-to-go integration, you can easily configure your OCI environment to export metrics and logs to Datadog with minimal setup.
3. Comprehensive coverage: Monitor all aspects of your OCI infrastructure, including Compute instances, load balancers, databases, and more, all from the Datadog platform.
4. Enhanced troubleshooting: Pinpoint performance bottlenecks and troubleshoot application issues faster with Datadog’s advanced analytics and machine learning capabilities.
5. AI and machine learning (ML) observability: Monitor the performance and usage of GPUs for AI and ML workloads.

Oracle provides a choice of solutions

Oracle also offers a comprehensive portfolio of observability services.  OCI’s Observability and Management platform provides rich AI-based observability with separate services for log analytics, infrastructure monitoring, real user experience, synthetics, capacity planning, and deep database performance diagnostics and analytics. It supports technologies deployed on OCI, Amazon Web Services (AWS), Azure, and Google Cloud, and on-premises.  OCI’s Observability and Management platform provides extensive open standards support, including CNCF and REST APIs, to integrate with Datadog or any other Oracle partner, making these insights available for a broad spectrum of users.

As cloud infrastructures grow in complexity, monitoring and troubleshooting performance across a distributed environment becomes more challenging. OCI’s native Observability and Management capabilities and Datadog’s unified platform offer flexibility and choice for monitoring cloud infrastructure, applications, and logs in one place. Our combined solutions help our joint customers to benefit from the following features:

1. Unified onitoring: Analyze metrics, logs, and traces on OCI or send them to Datadog for additional custom analysis.
2. Prebuilt and custom dashboards: Use Datadog’s intuitive dashboards to visualize OCI environment alongside other Datadog-monitored assets deployed on cloud platforms and on-premises systems.
3. Proactive alerts: Integrate real-time alerts for any anomalies in OCI environment with Datadog environment, enabling you to respond faster to potential issues.
4. End-to-end tracing: Use Oracle or Datadog’s distributed tracing to monitor complex application architectures, including microservices running in OCI.

Get Started

Getting started with OCI and Datadog is easy. Follow the steps in the Datadog documentation to begin exporting your metrics and logs from resources you want to monitor, such as OCI Compute, Oracle Database, or OCI load balancers. When your metrics are flowing, Datadog provides dashboards and monitor templates for immediate and customizable visibility into your infrastructure and application performance.

For more details, see the blo post, “Monitor OCI with Datadog.”

Whether you choose to use Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Observability and Management, Datadog, or a combination of the two, Oracle provides a rich set of observability capabilities that enable our customers to gain full insight into their multi-cloud environments.