Alibaba Cloud is a major cloud provider in APAC, offering industry-leading foundational AI models in addition to compute, managed databases, object storage, and Kubernetes through its Container Service for Kubernetes (ACK). Teams choose Alibaba Cloud for its infrastructure availability across Asia Pacific and its managed services. For SREs and platform engineers, that often means running Alibaba Cloud alongside AWS, Google Cloud, or Microsoft Azure. Each cloud has its own observability layer, making incidents that span providers difficult to diagnose.
The Datadog Alibaba Cloud integration collects metrics from popular Alibaba Cloud services, pulls logs natively from Simple Log Service (SLS), and when paired with the Datadog Agent installed on ECS instances and ACK clusters, supports distributed traces and container data collection. Investigating an incident in Alibaba Cloud no longer requires switching tools or changing context since that data lives in Datadog alongside the rest of your stack.
In this post, you’ll see how to:
Correlate Alibaba Cloud infrastructure metrics with your stackCollect Alibaba Cloud logs from Simple Log Service (SLS) Help accommodate compliance needs with Datadog BYOC (Bring Your Own Cloud) LogsCollect distributed application traces and container metrics
