Monitor Google Compute Engine performance with Datadog

Google Compute Engine (GCE), part of the Google Cloud Platform (GCP), offers scalable virtual machines as an alternative to AWS EC2. Datadog is a tool that helps monitor GCE instances' activity, health, and performance by collecting necessary metrics. These include status checks, CPU usage percentage, I/O throughput, network throughput, and saturation. Datadog automatically tags these metrics with instance type, host name, availability zone, and more for better organization and analysis. Users can also leverage advanced features like alerting mechanisms, host maps, and outlier detection to monitor GCE effectively.