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Date Published
Author
Michael Gerstenhaber
Word count
686
Language
English
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Summary

Datadog has introduced Cloud Network Monitoring, a feature designed to provide comprehensive visibility into network flows across multi-cloud environments. This tool enables users to monitor network connections with granular detail and aggregate data using tags, allowing for insightful analysis of performance and dependencies. By leveraging eBPF technology, the feature offers extensive network observability with minimal performance impact. It supports dynamic infrastructure monitoring by focusing on longer-lived abstractions, such as services and availability zones, rather than transient components like individual hosts. This functionality helps identify misconfigured services and optimize network traffic patterns for performance and cost efficiency. Integrated with Datadog's platform, it allows users to correlate logs and request traces, offering a full-stack view of network dependencies and facilitating the identification of network issues.