Installing Datadog on Mesos with DC/OS

Apache Mesos is a distributed systems kernel that abstracts data center resources into a single pool for running applications at scale, as evidenced by its adoption by companies like Twitter, Airbnb, Netflix, and Apple. However, deploying Mesos can be complex due to the need to find and configure compatible solutions for service discovery, load balancing, monitoring, etc. DC/OS (Datacenter Operating System) simplifies this process by bundling these technologies with an easy-to-install and configure full-fledged operating system for Mesos clusters. Datadog is a popular choice for monitoring Mesos clusters due to its scalability and compatibility with distributed infrastructure components. Installing the Datadog Agent on both agent and leader nodes of a Mesos cluster allows users to view metrics at various levels of granularity, while additional integrations enable monitoring of services and applications running in the cluster. Autodiscovery is an automated feature that detects which containerized services are running on which nodes and configures the Datadog Agent accordingly.