Collecting Pivotal Platform logs and metrics

In this three-part series, we have explored how to monitor your Pivotal Platform (PAS) deployment using native tools as well as third-party services. We began by discussing the built-in monitoring capabilities of PAS and its various components, including Firehose, Loggregator, Healthwatch, Metrics Registrar, and syslog drains. In Part 2, we looked at how to use these native tools to collect logs and metrics from your deployment. We also examined the role that third-party nozzles can play in extending PAS’s monitoring capabilities by ingesting Firehose data into managed services for processing, visualization, and storage. In this final part of our series, we will explore how you can integrate Pivotal Platform with Datadog to aggregate the full range of deployment and application metrics, as well as application and system logs, so that you can get deep visibility into your entire deployment in a single platform. Datadog’s Pivotal Platform integration enables operators and developers to collect Pivotal Platform deployment metrics and logs for use with Datadog’s powerful visualization, analytics, and alerting features. In this final part of this series, we’ll show you how you can integrate Pivotal Platform with Datadog to aggregate the full range of deployment and application metrics, as well as application and system logs, so that you can get deep visibility into your entire deployment in a single platform. Acknowledgments We wish to thank Amber Alston, Katrina Bakas, Matt Cholick, Jared Ruckle, and the rest of the Pivotal team for their technical review and feedback for this series.