Case Study: Datadog achieves faster cloud service discovery and cluster-wide configuration changes with HashiCorp Consul

Service Discovery in the Cloud with Consul at Datadog

Datadog worked with HashiCorp to address growing service discovery and configuration challenges in its AWS environment. As Datadog scaled to 350 VMs and handled 1 million metrics per second, it experienced severe pain around keeping services discoverable and making quick configuration changes.

Using HashiCorp Consul, Datadog simplified and made service discovery more flexible while enabling faster cluster-wide configuration updates. Over 10 months, Datadog grew to 1,000 VMs handling 4 million metrics per second and used Consul to support 60-second cluster-wide configuration changes, delivering a measurable improvement in speed and scale.

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Darron Froese

Datadog