Monitoring Cloudflare logs with Datadog for real-time analytics

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To monitor Cloudflare logs with Datadog for real-time analytics, you need to set up log forwarding from Cloudflare to Datadog. This typically involves configuring Cloudflare to send logs to a Datadog endpoint. Pulumi can be used to set up the necessary resources on both the Cloudflare side and the Datadog side to facilitate this integration.

First, you would create Datadog resources such as monitors or dashboards to visualize the log data. Pulumi's Datadog provider offers various resources for this purpose, for example, `datadog.MetricMetadata`. This resource can be useful for managing metadata for a specific metric, which might be part of your logging and monitoring setup.

Second, on the Cloudflare side, you might utilize resources like `cloudflare.Argo` which can enhance routing decisions for your traffic but is not directly related to log forwarding. For log forwarding, you'd need to set up Cloudflare Logpush jobs, which are currently not managed directly through Pulumi's Cloudflare provider. Instead, you could use the Cloudflare API or the dashboard to set up such jobs.

With both Datadog and Cloudflare, you'd generally have to consider the following steps, which are done outside of Pulumi:
1. Configure Cloudflare Logpush service to forward logs to Datadog.
2. Create a pipeline in Datadog to process and analyze Cloudflare logs.

Below is a basic Pulumi program that sets up a Datadog dashboard for monitoring purposes. It doesn't set up the actual log forwarding as this is not directly supported by Pulumi at the time. This example assumes logs are already being sent to Datadog from Cloudflare:

```typescript
import * as pulumi from "@pulumi/pulumi";
import * as datadog from "@pulumi/datadog";

// Set up a Datadog dashboard for monitoring Cloudflare logs
const dashboard = new datadog.Dashboard("cloudflare-logs-dashboard", {
    title: "Cloudflare Logs",
    description: "Dashboard for monitoring Cloudflare logs.",
    widgets: [
        // Define your widgets here to visualize the metrics
        // You'd configure specific log-based metrics that you have set up in Datadog
        // This could include total requests, cached requests, or any other relevant metric
    ],
});

// Export the URL of the newly created Datadog dashboard
export const datadogDashboardUrl = dashboard.url;
```

The above code creates a Datadog dashboard resource which is a placeholder for actual widgets that visualize the metrics. You would need to define the widgets based on the specific metrics that you are sending from Cloudflare to Datadog. This setup would be visual only, and the actual data ingestion would be configured separately.

For the detailed log forwarding configuration, refer to the Cloudflare Logpush documentation and Datadog's log management documentation to set up the integration. Once log data is being forwarded to Datadog, you can expand the above Pulumi program to define alerts, monitors, and other analytical tools offered by Datadog.

Make sure to replace the placeholder comments with the real widgets and metrics relevant to your use case, and use the exported dashboard URL to easily access your Datadog dashboard.