Consul at Datadog | Datadog

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This post details Datadog's use of Consul for distributing configuration and discovering service endpoints in its microservices architecture. It provides recommendations for optimizing Consul server performance (CPU), managing configuration changes via git2consul, securing access with ACLs, preventing self-DDoS with watches, lightening the load with dnsmasq, and the importance of monitoring Consul. It also touches upon the Raft consensus protocol and leadership transitions.