Node.js monitoring with Datadog APM and distributed tracing

Datadog APM has released support for monitoring Node.js applications, joining its existing support for Java, Ruby, Python, and Go. This feature provides detailed performance overviews of applications, tracing requests across distributed services and hosts to identify bottlenecks and debug errors. Datadog APM automatically instruments requests to commonly used modules in the Node.js ecosystem, including web frameworks like Express and data stores like MongoDB, Redis, MySQL, and PostgreSQL. The tool also allows users to set up automated alerts for potential issues such as high error rates or anomalous request throughput. Additionally, Watchdog uses machine learning to surface potential problems without requiring manual configuration of alerts. Datadog APM is compatible with OpenTracing, the open standard for distributed tracing, making it vendor-neutral and easy to port applications from one backend to another.