Monitor Calico with Datadog

Calico is a versatile networking and security solution that supports various technologies such as Iptables, eBPF, Host Network Service (HNS for Windows), and Vector Packet Processing (VPP) for containers, virtual machines, and bare-metal workloads. Datadog's Calico integration provides granular detail into traffic between Kubernetes resources and other workloads, enabling users to ensure that their network policies are properly filtering traffic via iptables. The integration allows tracking of network policies, restricting traffic to host endpoints and workload endpoints, monitoring errors in iptables and ipsets, leveraging Datadog's Kubernetes integration for rich context around Calico performance, and getting real-time visibility into network policies and endpoints.