Case Study: SolveBio achieves seamless AWS Elastic Beanstalk monitoring and visibility with Datadog

Deploy Datadog on AWS Elastic Beanstalk

SolveBio, led by CTO David Caplan, runs critical biomedical APIs on AWS Elastic Beanstalk and needed reliable performance monitoring. They adopted Datadog but faced a deployment conflict because Datadog and Elastic Beanstalk used separate supervisord instances, which confused the Beanstalk deployment process.

They resolved this by adding Datadog via Beanstalk environment configuration (.ebextensions/99_datadog.config), telling Elastic Beanstalk to stop the Datadog Agent before deployment and restart it afterward, and deploying with git aws.push (or using the containerized Agent). The Agent installs persistently across deploys, SSH was enabled for debugging, and Datadog has since provided useful visibility into Elastic Beanstalk performance.

SolveBio

David Caplan

Chief Technology Officer