Django Channels - Monitoring and Testing Performance in Prod

[Myer Nore]

I work on an app that has Django Channels 1 deployed in production with CPU-based auto-scaling. Most of the time, it works fine, but sometimes, when the site is busy and many users are utilizing the parts of our application that are channels-intensive, users are unable to utilize their websocket, and we need better metrics to help us determine the root cause fix.   

1. How do you monitor Django Channels in production? 
2. What are your favorite strategies for integrating with DataDog or New Relic? 
3. I'm considering writing some JS that detects a degraded websocket connection and posts a DataDog custom event (https://docs.datadoghq.com/api/v1/events/). What's a better way to accomplish the same thing?

Many thanks,

Myer