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Date Published
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Nancy Zhu, Jane Wang, Aaron Kaplan
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1163
Language
English
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Summary

Datadog's Data Streams Monitoring (DSM) provides detailed visibility into event-driven applications and streaming data pipelines, allowing users to track performance and improve it. DSM offers a topology map that visualizes all pipeline components and their dependencies, including every service and queue, from end to end. This map shows throughput for each service as well as the time messages spend in queues, highlighting issues such as slow-performing services. Users can select any service or queue from the map to open a side panel of key health and performance metrics, which helps troubleshoot issues. DSM also provides supplementary SQS-specific metrics within its topology map, allowing users to configure monitors to alert on these metrics if they breach expected limits. The integration enables users to track throughput and latency, ensuring the health of their event-driven applications and meeting SLAs.