Datadog has announced a new integration with Alibaba Cloud, now generally available, which enables monitoring of Alibaba Cloud services such as load balancers, managed databases, and more. The integration automatically collects key metrics and metadata from various Alibaba Cloud services, including ECS, SLB, ApsaraDB RDS, and CDN, and provides real-time visibility into these services in Datadog. Additionally, the Datadog Agent can be installed on Alibaba Cloud VMs to get even richer context around the collected metrics and tags, allowing for a unified view of dynamic infrastructure and applications. The integration also includes support for over 850 built-in integrations with Datadog APM, enabling tracing requests across distributed services and instances, as well as log collection from each VM for troubleshooting purposes.