Monitor ELB performance with Datadog

This article discusses how to monitor Amazon Elastic Load Balancer (ELB) using Datadog. It explains the integration process and highlights key ELB metrics such as requests per second, latency, surge queue length, spillover count, healthy and unhealthy hosts counts, HTTP code returned, etc. The article also demonstrates how to customize dashboards, visualize and alert on Amazon ELB metrics in minutes with Datadog, and correlate ELB with EC2 metrics for better insight into backend instances' health and performance. Additionally, it discusses the benefits of using the Datadog Agent to collect native metrics directly from servers for a higher resolution view of system metrics like CPU utilization or memory consumption by process.