HCP Consul is designed to enable developers and operators to focus less on managing underlying infrastructure and concentrate more on enabling Consul's service discovery and service mesh capabilities. By deploying production-ready Consul servers with the click of a button, users can get greater insights into how applications registered with HCP Consul clients perform using application performance monitoring solution Datadog. The integration allows users to configure Datadog to trigger alerts based on changes to latency data, service health checks, and node health checks, providing full visibility into service changes and health without worrying about parsing through server-side data. Additionally, the integration with Envoy enables users to ingest request volume, traffic flow, and span data to build a comprehensive visualization of how traffic moves through the Consul service mesh, making it easier to troubleshoot errors and reduce mean time to resolution. By leveraging HCP Consul and Datadog, organizations can improve observability dashboards and application performance without spending time on routine maintenance and management of Consul servers, allowing them to focus on enhancing their businesses.