Ansible is an infrastructure automation solution that enables users to provision, deploy, and manage their infrastructure and applications. It provides roles similar to Puppet modules and Chef cookbooks, which can be downloaded from the open source Ansible Galaxy to accomplish tasks such as installing a database and configuring its service. Datadog's integration with Ansible allows users to implement monitoring as code by deploying the Datadog Agent and enabling other integrations. The integration provides real-time reporting and visibility into key metrics and events, including failed tasks, through an out-of-the-box dashboard. To use this integration, users need to source a set of environment variables, add node FQDNs to the hosts file, and install the Datadog role and callback plugin. The integration can be used to track Ansible performance metrics and events in real-time, correlate Ansible events with metrics, and configure Ansible playbooks for multiple roles.