# Connecting to Datadog
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Datadog is a monitoring and analytics platform for cloud-scale applications, including infrastructure, applications, services, and tools.

**Topics**
+ [AWS Glue support for Datadog](datadog-support.md)
+ [Policies containing the API operations for creating and using connections](datadog-configuring-iam-permissions.md)
+ [Configuring Datadog](datadog-configuring.md)
+ [Configuring Datadog connections](datadog-configuring-connections.md)
+ [Reading from Datadog entities](datadog-reading-from-entities.md)
+ [Datadog connection options](datadog-connection-options.md)
+ [Creating a Datadog account](datadog-create-account.md)
+ [Limitations](datadog-connector-limitations.md)