How Logs Travel From Your EKS Pod to Datadog The Hidden Journey Inside / Kubernetes
The article explains how logs from applications running on Amazon EKS are sent to Datadog for monitoring. It details the role of the Datadog Agent, which collects logs and metrics from Kubernetes pods. Understanding this process helps clarify how observability works within Kubernetes environments.
- ▪Datadog is an observability platform that centralizes monitoring for infrastructure, applications, and logs.
- ▪The Datadog Agent runs inside the Kubernetes cluster and collects logs, metrics, and traces from each node.
- ▪Logs are generated by applications and captured by the container runtime before being monitored by the Datadog Agent.
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