Understand AWS CloudWatch metrics and Datadog measurements

This article details how Datadog now supports Amazon CloudWatch Metric Streams, enabling significantly faster ingestion of CloudWatch metrics – often within seconds instead of minutes. By leveraging Metric Streams, users can achieve near real-time monitoring and alerting in Datadog, improving observability and faster response to critical issues in their AWS environments. This integration offers a more efficient and cost-effective alternative to traditional CloudWatch agent-based collection.