The Apache Software Foundation, a decentralized community of developers producing over 100 open-source software projects, faced challenges in setting up monitoring for their servers. They needed a monitoring suite that was easy to deploy and set up, collected useful information, had extensible monitoring options, and did not require significant resources from the organization itself. After evaluating different options, they adopted Datadog, which satisfied all their criteria. The integration with various technologies, including httpd, LDAP, and Puppet, made it an ideal choice for their needs. With Datadog, the Apache Infrastructure Team was able to identify issues such as resource abuse, backend capacity problems, and replication delays, allowing them to take proactive measures to prevent service disruptions and improve overall performance.