How Logs Travel From Your EKS Pod to Datadog
The article explains how logs from applications running on Kubernetes using Amazon EKS are sent to Datadog for monitoring. It details the role of the Datadog Agent, which collects logs and metrics from the Kubernetes environment. Understanding this process helps clarify how observability works within Kubernetes clusters.
- ▪Datadog is an observability platform that helps engineers monitor various aspects of their systems.
- ▪The Datadog Agent runs inside the Kubernetes cluster and collects logs, metrics, and traces from the applications.
- ▪Kubernetes captures logs written by applications and stores them as files on the node filesystem, which the Datadog Agent then monitors.
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