Datadog Managed Services — Cloud-Native Observability at Scale
Apto fills the Operator gap for Datadog — keeping your infrastructure monitoring, APM and log management optimised and cost-effective so your engineering team can focus on building, not firefighting.
Datadog Platform Expertise
From infrastructure monitoring to cost governance, Apto delivers the full spectrum of Datadog managed services.
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Infrastructure Monitoring
Host maps, container monitoring, Kubernetes observability and 750+ out-of-the-box integrations. We configure and maintain custom metrics, tags and dashboards to give your teams full visibility across cloud and on-premise infrastructure.
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APM & Distributed Tracing
Application Performance Monitoring with service maps, trace analytics, error tracking and continuous profiling. We instrument your services and tune sampling rates to balance visibility with cost control.
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Log Management & SIEM
Log pipeline configuration, indexing policies, log-based metrics and Datadog Cloud SIEM. We design log routing strategies that keep security-critical data in hot storage while managing volume to control costs.
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Cost Optimisation
Usage governance, metric cardinality control, log indexing policies, commit management and tag-based cost attribution. Datadog’s per-host and per-GB pricing can spiral without active management — we keep it in check.
Filling the Operator Gap for Datadog
24/7 account monitoring, proactive cost governance and continuous improvement — without the overhead of building an in-house platform team.
Operate Core
Continuous, independent monitoring of your Datadog account health: agent deployment coverage, monitor status and alert noise, usage versus commit tracking, integration health and data freshness. Daily analyst-reviewed reporting ensures nothing falls through the cracks.
Operate Attach
Targeted engineering support for your backlog. New integration deployment, dashboard development, monitor creation and tuning, log pipeline configuration, APM instrumentation and cost governance — delivered in prioritised sprints.
The Operate + Build Virtuous Cycle
Operations insight drives continuous platform improvement. What we observe in Operate Core feeds directly into engineering priorities — creating a cycle where your Datadog deployment gets better every month, not just maintained.
Apto’s Datadog Credentials
Proven expertise backed by certifications, cloud-native skills and real-world delivery.
Cloud-Native Expertise
AWS, Azure & GCP certified
ISO 27001 Certified
Information security management
APM & Tracing Specialists
Distributed tracing & profiling expertise
Kubernetes Observability
Container & orchestration monitoring
Cost Governance Framework
Usage tracking & commit management
Multi-Cloud Architecture
Cross-platform observability design
Datadog in Action
Real outcomes from Apto’s Datadog managed services engagements.
Cloud Migration Observability
CLOUD MIGRATION
An organisation migrating critical workloads to AWS and Azure needed unified observability across their hybrid infrastructure. Datadog was deployed with full infrastructure monitoring, log management and custom dashboards. Apto Operate provided continuous monitoring, agent coverage assurance and cost governance to keep the deployment optimised as the migration progressed.
APM Implementation for Microservice
APPLICATION PERFORMANCE
A development team needed visibility into the performance of their microservices architecture. Datadog APM was deployed with distributed tracing, service maps and error tracking. The team gained real-time insight into service dependencies and bottlenecks, reducing mean time to resolution significantly across their production environment.
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