Monitoring Aerospike Enterprise in Datadog: What you get and how it works

Aerospike's integration with Datadog enhances operational visibility for Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) and DevOps teams by embedding its database monitoring into existing observability platforms, thus avoiding the need for separate systems. This integration features a flexible monitoring stack, with the Aerospike Prometheus Exporter (APE) as its foundation, allowing metrics to be routed into various platforms including Datadog, Grafana, and OpenTelemetry-compatible pipelines. The native Datadog integration offers eight pre-built dashboards that provide insights into cluster health, namespace capacity, node performance, and more, with a focus on latency histograms for detailed diagnostics. Setting up the integration involves installing the Datadog agent and Aerospike Enterprise check on each node, or alternatively using the Prometheus Exporter in OpenTelemetry mode to send metrics directly to Datadog Cloud. This initiative is part of Aerospike's broader strategy to make its database a well-instrumented, observable system within diverse tech stacks.