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Decide on Datadog Private Locations

Problem​

Datadog Private Locations are a feature that needs to be enabled in your datadog account that allows monitoring applications that aren’t accessible to the open internet.

To enable private locations, we need to:

  • Enable the feature in each datadog account.

  • Deploy the Private Location Docker Image.

We can deploy the private location container to EKS. This leads to another decision: Do we deploy it once with the capability to ping the rest of the clusters' internal addresses, or do we deploy it to every cluster?

Cost​

According to https://www.datadoghq.com/pricing/?product=synthetic-monitoring#synthetic-monitoring-is-there-any-extra-charge-for-using-private-locations, registering a new Private Location is not at an additional cost; the regular costs for synthetics still apply.

Is there any extra charge for using private locations? No. There are no additional costs to set up a private location. All test runs to a private location are billed just as they are to a managed location.

Solution​

Option 1: Enable Private Locations, and deploy to every cluster (Recommended)​

tip

Our Recommendation is to use Option 1 because it enables private location features and provides a consistent way to scale.

➕ Private Location Monitoring

➕ One helm chart per cluster via a component installation

➖ Must run an additional container per cluster

Option 2: Don’t Use Private Locations​

➕ Ever So Slightly Cheaper (We don’t run the container)

➖ Monitoring Only Publicly accessible services

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