Microsoft Azure is the second-largest cloud provider in the world and is especially popular among enterprise companies, with rapid growth in its adoption despite having a smaller market share compared to Amazon Web Services. Datadog provides a simple way to monitor all components of an infrastructure across various platforms, including Azure SQL Database performance and usage alongside other hosts, apps, and services. Azure SQL Database is a hosted relational database service on the Azure cloud platform, designed to be scalable and easy to manage, with automatic analysis of design and usage patterns for recommendations on performance improvements. Datadog's integration with Azure SQL Database pulls in key metrics such as utilization, client connections, resource consumption, and troubleshooting metrics like deadlocks, also capturing unique measurement units for Azure databases known as DTUs. Each Azure SQL Database is assigned a certain number of DTUs based on the chosen service tier and performance level, allowing users to ensure their database is properly sized to handle workload and identify when it's time to scale up. The Azure Resource Manager deployment model allows organizing cloud services into cohesive groups, making it easier to deploy and manage resources consistently, while Datadog accommodates this model via tags, enabling easy filtering and aggregation of metrics at the group level.