Monitor Akka-based applications with Lightbend + Datadog

The Lightbend and Datadog teams have announced an official integration for Akka, a key component of the Lightbend Reactive Platform. This integration allows users building Akka-based Reactive applications to gain real-time insights into their application's health, availability, and performance with Datadog. The integration uses Lightbend Monitoring, which includes metrics/telemetry modules that report metrics to Datadog, covering aspects such as actor mailbox size, processing time for messages, and serialization times for remote messages. With this integration, users can set up their application with the Datadog instrumentation plugin, configure Akka telemetry, and access a predefined dashboard to monitor their Reactive applications. The Lightbend and Datadog teams will continue to enhance this integration, adding more metrics and features to be reflected in the Datadog dashboards.

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