Datadog allows you to monitor NGINX performance metrics alongside all your other systems on customizable dashboards. To implement comprehensive, ongoing NGINX monitoring, you need a robust monitoring system to store and visualize your metrics and logs, and to alert you when anomalies happen. You can easily create a comprehensive dashboard for monitoring your entire web stack by adding additional graphs with important metrics from outside NGINX. Datadog will process any log formatted as JSON automatically, turning key-value pairs into attributes that you can use to group and filter. To isolate this service's logs in the Log Explorer page, click my.nginx.service under the Service list in the sidebar. You can build alerts around key data collected in your logs, such as HTTP response codes and request processing time, that aren't available on the standard NGINX status page. Once Datadog is capturing and visualizing your metrics and logs, you will likely want to set up some alerts to automatically notify you when there are problems.