Datadog is built to give you a unified view of your entire system: traces correlated with logs, metrics tied to specific services, and dashboards providing panoramic visibility into your distributed architecture. But this unified view depends on a crucial piece of adhesive to hold it together: consistent naming of services across every product. If a service carries one name in APM and a slightly different one in Log Management, you’re left with two separate datasets that cannot be automatically joined. And if traces and metrics for the same workload carry different service tags, monitors cannot account for the full picture. The single pane of glass breaks before you can start investigating.
Datadog Service Remapping gives you direct control over how services are named and grouped throughout your Datadog environment, from the UI, without code changes or redeployments. You can use infrastructure tags already present on your telemetry to unify data across APM traces, logs, metrics, and more under a single service name. And when service names need to be cleaned up, renamed, merged, or split, you can do that too, all from one place.
In this post, we’ll show how Service Remapping helps you:
