Pivotal Platform Monitoring with Datadog

This post discusses how to use Datadog to monitor the health and performance of Pivotal Platform, formerly known as Pivotal Cloud Foundry. It covers using Datadog's Cluster Monitoring tile for operators to collect metrics from Pivotal Platform components and system-level resource metrics from underlying VMs. Additionally, it explains how developers can use Datadog's Application Monitoring tile to monitor the status and performance of their applications running in Pivotal Platform by collecting custom metrics, distributed traces, and logs. The post also details how to collect system logs with Datadog and forward them to a syslog server for further processing. Finally, it introduces Datadog's Logging without Limits™ approach, which allows users to ship all their logs without worrying about missing data or limitations on log volume.