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Monitor Amazon MQ metrics with Datadog

What's this blog post about?

Amazon MQ is an AWS-managed service that provides a cloud-based message broker using Apache ActiveMQ. It supports various APIs and protocols like JMS, AMQP, MQTT, OpenWire, STOMP, and WebSocket. Datadog's Amazon MQ integration allows users to monitor key metrics from their messaging infrastructure, ensuring proper functioning of brokers sending and receiving messages. Amazon MQ creates and manages brokers that route messages through queues or topics. It supports various configurations and provides high availability by launching instances in other availability zones. Security features include security groups, API authorization through IAM, and automatic encryption. Datadog's integration helps track broker resource usage and message destination metrics to ensure proper scaling and configuration of the messaging infrastructure.

Company
Datadog

Date published
Feb. 22, 2019

Author(s)
Maxim Brown

Word count
508

Hacker News points
None found.

Language
English


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