3 reasons why your HAProxy monitoring is broken

The traditional HAProxy monitoring process has several shortcomings, including lack of historical context, failure to correlate HAProxy data with other metrics, and absence of predictive capabilities. Infrequent reports make it difficult to detect small changes in the system that could signal larger problems. Additionally, monitoring only HAProxy limits the ability to identify root causes of issues. Datadog's approach to HAProxy monitoring addresses these shortcomings by archiving HAProxy data, correlating with other systems, and providing predictive capabilities through alerting and graphing based on this data.