Steve Harrington and Datadog have announced a new partnership with Microsoft Azure, enabling streamlined experiences for purchasing, configuring, and managing Datadog directly inside the Azure portal. This integration reduces the learning curve for using Datadog to monitor applications in Azure, allowing users to purchase plans through the Azure Marketplace, configure single sign-on, and send logs and metrics from Azure platform resources to Datadog with just a few clicks. The partnership also simplifies the setup process, automating log-forwarding and providing a native resource blade for managing the integration, as well as enabling consolidation of costs in a single invoice.