Monitor AWS control plane API usage metrics in Datadog

AWS Service Quotas helps manage limits on resources or API operations for around 200 AWS services. Until recently, only a subset of these were available to monitor via CloudWatch metrics. However, AWS has announced support for control plane API usage metrics across AWS services, which are now automatically available in Datadog through its AWS integration. This allows users to track service quota utilization and take action before issues arise. Users can also clone and customize their AWS dashboards to monitor key control plane API usage metrics alongside performance metrics from their AWS services. By using existing Datadog metrics, users can automatically start tracking significant changes in control plane API calls in their AWS account and set up alerts for rate limiting or abnormal trends in API usage.

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