Our newest set of integrations: Datadog

Introduction

Last Updated: August 2023

System integrations play a pivotal role in todays complex technological landscape, as they enable disparate software and hardware components to seamlessly communicate and work together. This interoperability is crucial for optimizing efficiency, streamlining operations, and enhancing the overall performance of organizations.

Having this in mind, were happy to announce our latest integration package: a batch of connectors with Datadog. This is a partnership were very excited about  and were eager to tell you more.

Datadog APM overview  

Datadog is an APM platform that detects complex performance problems of a huge number of SaaS & cloud applications, services, and systems and allows you to address them promptly. It takes out the stress of managing a compound IT infrastructure by giving you full visibility into your processes. Datadog APM monitors key variables and automatically identifies and isolates any issues that could lead to downtime or a drop in performance. It allows you to track and analyze UX, and proactively improve it or solve potential problems.

Datadog APM key features

Datadog APM offers a comprehensive set of features designed to monitor, analyze, and optimize the performance of complex IT environments. Some of its key features include:

• Monitoring and Alerting
• Dashboarding and Visualization
• Infrastructure Monitoring
• Application Performance Monitoring (APM)
• Log Management
• Synthetic Monitoring
• Network Performance Monitoring
• Security Monitoring
• Integrations
• Automation and Orchestration

Benefits of implementing Datadog APM

Implementing Datadog AMP offers several benefits for organizations looking to monitor, optimize, and secure their systems and applications:

• Comprehensive Visibility: Datadog AMP provides a unified view of your entire technology stack, from infrastructure to applications.
• Proactive Issue Detection:Datadog AMP helps teams identify performance bottlenecks, errors, and anomalies as they occur.
• Faster Troubleshooting
• Scalability Management: Datadog AMP provides insights into resource usage and performance.
• Enhanced Collaboration
• Improved User Experience: Datadog AMP helps ensure a positive user experience.
• Data-Driven Decision-Making
• Security Monitoring: Datado APMs security features help organizations identify potential security threats and vulnerabilities.

Why choose ZigiOps for your Datadog APM integrations?

Organizations often grapple with the decision between external and internal integration solutions, with some leaning towards the latter despite its time-intensive process and potential limitations. Integrating different systems can pose difficulties, leading to gaps in data and delays in addressing issues, which can ultimately impact customer satisfaction.

A sophisticated and ready-to-use option like ZigiOps can be a game-changer. ZigiOps serves as an agile and scalable integration platform that doesnt require coding.

ZigiOps offers a secure bidirectional connection between systems, addressing the integration between these platforms effectively. It comes with an easy-to-use interface and predefined templates, streamlining the setup process without the need for excessive time and resources.

With ZigiOps, you can now effortlessly integrate Datadog APM with a number of APM, ITSM, ITOM, and DevOps tools: BMC Remedy, VMWare vROps, Operations Bridge, JIRA, and Azure DevOps.

ZigiOps takes data from Datadog APM and directs it to other apps, for a smooth communication process between departments and teams.

ZigiOps unravels complex relationships and dependencies.

You can now bring Datadog APM to your software ecosystem and integrate it with other tools youre using, to tap into its pool of functionalities. By connecting it to other enterprise software apps, you expand the range of features of each one of them, without disrupting workflows & procedures.

Everyone can continue using the tools theyre best familiar with  and let the integration platform connect and synchronize data between them automatically.

Learn more about ZigiOps and its capabilities in this article.

Most common Datadog APM integration use cases (using ZigiOps)

Datadog detects complex performance issues across apps, servers, and systems. It improves the overall visibility into your processes, allowing you to quickly debug outages and resolve problems.

With ZigiOps, you can set up bi-directional integrations of Datadog APM with:

• ServiceNow
• BMC Remedy
• Cherwell
• VMware vROps
• Ops Bridge
• Jira
• Splunk
• Zendesk
• TOPdesk