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Live Process and Container Metrics Real-time Data Pipeline

1 post · Aug 2025

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Datadog's live process and container metrics pipeline has been significantly optimized. Initially, it collected data from all hosts in a tenant's infrastructure whenever a user viewed the Processes or Containers pages, leading to millions of data points per second. The system has evolved to collect real-time data only from hosts actively being viewed by the user (up to 50 hosts), drastically reducing data volume. This was achieved by filtering data based on 'host subscriptions' and propagating t

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