Deploying and configuring Datadog with CloudFormation

This post demonstrates how to use AWS CloudFormation to automatically deploy infrastructure that is preconfigured to send metrics and logs to Datadog. The process involves creating an EC2 instance running Apache web server, installing the Datadog Agent, configuring it with your API key, and enabling Datadog's integration with Apache. A sample CloudFormation template is used for this purpose. AWS CloudFormation is a configuration management service that allows you to create and update infrastructure programmatically using templates. The demonstration also includes the anatomy of the sample CloudFormation template and how it creates two AWS resources and a Datadog resource.