Datadog Container Pricing

It is recommended that containers are monitored with a single containerized agent per host.

Datadog container pricing.

Further reading to get a better idea of how or why to integrate your amazon ecs service check out datadog s blog post about it. The typical organization that uses a container orchestrator runs 11 5 containers per host as compared to about 6 5 containers per host in unorchestrated environments. Monitor amazon elastic container service for kubernetes from day one with datadog. Datadog records the number of task instances you are monitoring in the datadog infrastructure or apm service at five minute intervals.

Datadog named a leader in 2019 forrester wave intelligent application and service monitoring q2 2019 get the full report. The average container lifespan at a typical company running unorchestrated infrastructure is about two days down from about 6 days in mid 2018. Taking inspiration from bedrock tools like htop ctop and kubectl live containers give you complete coverage of your container infrastructure in a continuously updated table with resource metrics at two second resolution faceted search and streaming container logs. Metrics can be graphed on a dashboard by knowing the specific host name or tags.

Introducing the container map view in datadog the container map is a brand new way to visualize explore and debug your dynamic container infrastructure. The datadog agent provides real time performance tracking and visualization of your operating system and application metrics. Part of the increase in container density over time may be due to the rise of orchestration technologies which correlate with a greater number of containers per host. Datadog retains the historical data for these hosts paid accounts.

Refer to the dedicated amazon ecs documentation to run the agent as a container on every ec2 instance in your ecs cluster. The datadog agent runs in a container alongside any number of other containers on a host. Even though ecs and kubernetes still cycle through containers faster with typical container lifetimes of about one day the gap between platforms has narrowed. Depending on your plan you can monitor 10 or 20 containers free for each host license.

An aws fargate task is a collection of containers setup through aws s ecs container orchestration platform. This agent collects both container and host metrics.