Nutanix is a hyperconverged infrastructure (HCI) platform that combines compute, storage, and virtualization into a single software-defined stack. By collapsing traditional infrastructure tiers into one platform, Nutanix simplifies provisioning and operations for virtualized workloads. Clusters are managed through Prism Central, which provides visibility into health, performance, capacity, and operational activity across hosts and VMs.
This layered model shapes how teams need to monitor and troubleshoot their environments because performance issues don’t always show up in a single place. A slowdown in application response time might stem from cluster resource pressure, shifting storage I/O behavior, uneven host utilization, inefficient VM allocations, a configuration, or maintenance activity.
Datadog’s Nutanix integration, now generally available, supports these troubleshooting and capacity-planning tasks. It collects telemetry data across clusters, hosts, and VMs, and brings Prism Central alerts, events, tasks, and audits into Datadog as events. With this visibility, you can monitor Nutanix infrastructure alongside the applications running on it and determine whether an issue originated in the application layer or the underlying platform.
