Application Observability in Kubernetes with Datadog APM and Logging - A simple and actionable example
Last year I shared an example on how to realize application tracing in Kuberntes with Istio and Jaeger. After that, the industry has made some substantial headway on this front and we are seeing more vendor support as a result. At Buffer, since we primarily use Datadog for Kubernetes and application monitoring, it's only fitting to complete the circle with Datadog APM and Logging. I had a chance to create a small example for the team and would very much love to share with the community.
Okay, without further ado, let's dive in!
First thing first, in order to collect metrics and logs from Kubernetes an Datadog agent has to be installed in the cluster. The Datadog team ma