Buoyant Cloud provides fully managed Linkerd on your cluster to monitor the health of Linkerd and deployments. With this integration, you can monitor and be alerted on Linkerd's health, workload traffic, rollout events, and metrics.
You need to have an account at Buoyant Cloud to use this integration. You can also sign up for Buoyant Cloud in the Datadog Marketplace.
- Click the Connect Accounts button on the tile to complete the OAuth flow.
- Browse to the Buoyant Cloud Notifications page.
- Add or edit a rule under Events or Metrics.
- Go to the Destinations section and select your Datadog account to send all events or metrics matching the notification rule to Datadog.
As Buoyant Cloud creates events, they appear in the Datadog event explorer. Metrics appear in the Datadog metrics explorer.
- Browse to the Buoyant Cloud Settings page.
- Click the kebab menu to the right of your Datadog org.
- Click Remove.
Additionally, ensure that all API keys associated with this integration have been disabled by searching for the integration name on the API Keys page.
Buoyant Cloud sends events to Datadog, including:
- Linkerd health alerts
- Linkerd configuration alerts
- Workload traffic alerts
- Workload rollouts
- Manual events
See metadata.csv for a list of metrics provided by this integration.
Need help? Get support from the following sources:
- Browse the Buoyant Cloud docs
- Reach out in Linkerd Slack
- Email the Buoyant Cloud team