Datadog is a monitoring service for cloud-scale applications that monitor servers, databases, tools, and services through a software-as-a-service-based data analytics platform. It supports multiple cloud service providers, including Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud Platform, and Red Hat OpenShift.
The Datadog agent is the software that runs on virtual machines or containers. It collects events and metrics from these virtual machines or containers and sends them to Datadog, where customers can analyze their monitoring and performance data. The agent integrations is A plug-in that collects metrics from services running on customer infrastructure. Presently, there are more than one hundred integrations, all of which come out-of-the-box with the Agent installed.
This ITE discusses the TUF security model used to distribute the Datadog Agent integrations in a compromise-resilient manner.