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Infrastructure monitoring with Datadog: hosts, containers and cloud, in Saudi Arabia
Infrastructure monitoring shows whether your servers, virtual machines, containers and cloud services are healthy, and which of them is about to cause an outage. Datadog does this with one Agent on each host, more than a thousand built-in integrations and views for hosts, containers and processes. Interkey, an official Datadog partner, sells Datadog licences in Saudi Arabia, rolls out the Agent, designs the alerts your team will act on, and provides technical support after go-live.
In short
- What it covers: hosts, containers and processes, with a list of every monitored host, and host and container maps.
- How data is collected: by the Datadog Agent, which is open source, plus more than 1,000 built-in integrations.
- Where it runs: Linux, Windows, AIX and macOS hosts, Docker, Kubernetes, Amazon ECS and several cloud platforms.
- Who it is for: IT operations, platform and cloud teams that run a mix of data-centre and cloud systems.
- How it is billed: per host, per month, in Pro and Enterprise tiers. List prices are on our Datadog pricing guide.
- What Interkey does: licences, Agent roll-out, tagging standard, dashboards, alerts, cost review and technical support.
What infrastructure monitoring should show
Most estates already have graphs. What they often lack is one place where a host, the containers on it and the processes inside them can be read together.
| View | What it gives you |
|---|---|
| Infrastructure List | A list of all hosts monitored by Datadog |
| Host Map and Container Map | Hosts or containers together on one screen, with custom groupings, filters and metrics shown through colour and shape |
| Containers view | Real-time visibility into containers across the environment |
| Processes view | Real-time visibility into processes, the most granular elements of a deployment |
| Integrations | More than 1,000 built-in integrations, covering cloud platforms, databases, message queues, caches and more |
| Monitors and dashboards | Alerts and dashboards built on the same metrics and tags |
What the Agent runs on
The Datadog Agent runs on your hosts, collects events and metrics and sends them to Datadog. It also covers log collection, process monitoring and tracing.
| Environment | Documented platforms |
|---|---|
| Hosts | Amazon Linux, AIX, Windows and macOS |
| Containers | Docker, Kubernetes, Amazon ECS and Google Cloud Run (as a sidecar) |
| Cloud platforms | Heroku, AWS Lambda and Cloud Foundry |
| Configuration management | Ansible, Chef, Puppet, SaltStack and SCCM |
Check the exact operating system versions on Datadog's documentation before you plan the roll-out. The Agent is open source, which lets your security team review it, and configuration-management support means it can be deployed with the tools you already use.
Tag first, or you will rebuild it later
Tags are how Datadog groups hosts, filters dashboards and routes alerts, so the tagging standard matters more than the first dashboard. In Interkey's reference design, service names are lowercase and hyphenated, environments come from a fixed list (dev, test, uat, staging, prod), and the version is injected by the CI/CD pipeline. Datadog calls the env, service and version tags unified service tagging, and they tie infrastructure data to traces and logs.
For Kubernetes estates, see our Kubernetes monitoring design guide.
Alerts that earn their place
The usual failure is a deployment where agents are everywhere, hundreds of dashboards exist, alerts fire constantly and the team still hears about an outage from a user. Interkey asks four questions of every alert before it ships:
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- Does it mean something is wrong? A threshold crossed is not the same as a service failing.
- Is there something to do about it? If the answer at 3am is to acknowledge it and go back to sleep, it is a dashboard.
- Does the receiver know what to do? The alert names the affected service, the likely cause and the first thing to check.
- Will it still be true in six months? Thresholds set against last quarter's traffic, or pinned to one hostname, decay.
Hybrid estates and where the data goes
Many Saudi estates keep long-lived systems in a local data centre beside cloud and Kubernetes workloads. The Agent runs in both, so one view can cover them, but the network path from each zone to Datadog is agreed with your security team, not worked around. Datadog is SaaS, and as of November 2026 its documented sites are in the US, Germany, Japan, Australia and the UK, none in the Middle East. Infrastructure metrics rarely hold personal data, though tags can leak more than intended. Our Datadog data residency guide covers the design.
RelatedDatadog data residency guide
How Interkey rolls out infrastructure monitoring
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Inventory.
What runs where, and which systems carry the business.
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Quote the licences.
Hosts by tier, with APM, logs and other products you run or plan, and implementation and technical support.
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Agree the tagging standard.
One standard for service, environment, version and owner.
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Roll out the Agent in tranches.
Start with the hosts, clusters and applications that matter most, using your configuration-management tools.
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Build dashboards and alerts.
Service-level dashboards for the teams that own each service, and alerts that pass the four questions.
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Review cost and noise.
Host counts, custom metrics and alert volume reviewed after go-live.
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Operate or hand over.
Interkey operates the platform from Riyadh, or hands it over with documentation and stays on as technical support.
Questions buyers ask
What do we have to install?
The Datadog Agent on each host, or as a container on Docker and Kubernetes. Built-in integrations then collect from the services running there.
Does it cover both our data centre and our cloud?
Yes. The Agent runs on hosts and containers in either, and Datadog has integrations for cloud platforms. The network path from each zone is agreed with your security team.
How is infrastructure monitoring billed?
Per host, per month, in Pro and Enterprise tiers. Our Datadog pricing guide has the list prices, and Interkey quotes licences with implementation and support.
Is the data stored in Saudi Arabia?
No. As of November 2026, Datadog lists no Middle East site. Decide deliberately what is collected and which tags are used.
Can Interkey supply the licences?
Yes. Interkey sells Datadog licences in Saudi Arabia and quotes them together with implementation and technical support.
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Plan an infrastructure rollout
Tell us what runs where, roughly how many hosts and clusters, and whether Datadog is already in your estate. We can quote the licences, the roll-out and technical support together.
Or directly
+966-11-2180999 [email protected]Tawuniya Towers, North Tower, 7th Floor, King Fahad Highway, Olaya, P.O. Box 56835, Riyadh 11564, Saudi Arabia