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Datadog with Alopex Skulk
Datadog is a monitoring service that turns infrastructure metrics into graphs and alerts. How would we make it with Alopex Skulk?
Updated: Oct 12, 2026
What the service does
Datadog monitors cloud and on-premises infrastructure. It collects metrics, turns them into graphs and alerts, and slices them by tag. The data is metric time series tagged with hosts and services.
Where the data lives
- Skulk time series: CPU, memory, request counts and latency are appended to Skulk, tagged by host and service.
- PromQL: dashboard graphs and alert conditions are PromQL queries.
- Time buckets: hourly averages and maximums come from time-bucketed aggregation in SQL.
Collecting and writing the metrics and sending alerts are app code.
Deployment
Skulk is embedded in the application being monitored. The application keeps its own metrics and serves its own dashboards. Metrics from many applications are gathered by a Skulk server or cluster on the same engine.
Why Alopex Skulk fits
Monitoring comes down to tagged time series and the queries over them. Skulk handles ingestion, PromQL and time buckets inside the application, and grows from inside the application to a monitoring platform on the same engine.
Embed Alopex Skulk, which answers PromQL over tagged time series, and your app carries its own dashboards. Give it a try in a small app.