Monitor your T2A-powered GKE workloads with Datadog

Google Cloud has introduced Arm-based Tau T2A virtual machines (VMs) for running workloads in Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE). Datadog provides complete visibility into GKE environments, including nodes running on Arm-based VMs. This is crucial for migrating workloads to Tau T2A machines as it enables users to compare costs and performance between Arm- and x86-based architectures. Datadog's built-in integration dashboard allows monitoring of key data across nodes, such as CPU utilization, to determine which ones could benefit from leveraging the new T2A machines. With Datadog APM, users can collect traces from nodes running on different architectures to compare performance data like request latency, error rate, and throughput. This helps ensure that newly provisioned nodes are appropriately configured to handle traffic as expected.