Datadog-AI Integration for Predictive Analytics

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Datadog is a monitoring service for cloud-scale applications, providing monitoring of servers, databases, tools, and services, through a SaaS-based data analytics platform. In the context of Pulumi, integrating Datadog for predictive analytics in your cloud infrastructure involves setting up monitoring and logging, perhaps across various cloud services, and then employing Datadog's AI capabilities to analyze this data for insights and predictions.

To integrate Datadog with your infrastructure leveraging Pulumi, you would typically create Datadog resources programmatically using Pulumi's Python SDKs for the providers you wish to monitor (e.g., AWS, Azure, GCP). Moreover, you would configure Datadog's monitors and dashboards to utilize predictive analytics features.

Below is a basic Pulumi Python program that outlines steps to integrate Datadog with AWS for monitoring purposes. Remember, before running this code, you'll need to have Pulumi installed, set up an AWS account, and have a Datadog account with the appropriate API and application keys.

```python
import pulumi
import pulumi_datadog as datadog

# Provide your Datadog API and Application Keys
datadog_provider = datadog.Provider("datadog-provider", 
                                    api_key="your-datadog-api-key",
                                    app_key="your-datadog-application-key")

# Setup the AWS integration
# This integration is responsible for collecting metrics from AWS 
# services and sending them to Datadog, which can then be used for predictive analytics.
aws_integration = datadog.AwsIntegration("aws-integration",
  account_id="your-aws-account-id",
  role_name="DatadogAWSIntegrationRole",  # The name of the role created in AWS for Datadog integration.
  filter_tags=["env:production"],  # You can filter which AWS tags to pull in.
  host_tags=["monitoring:datadog"],  # Add tags for the integration itself.
  account_specific_namespace_rules={"auto_scaling": False, "opsworks": False},
  opts=pulumi.ResourceOptions(provider=datadog_provider))

# Create a monitor. This can be a simple anomaly or outlier detection 
# monitor that can use predictive analytics to alert on potential issues.
anomaly_monitor = datadog.Monitor("anomaly-monitor",
  name="Predictive Monitor for High CPU",
  type="query alert",  # This type allows you to define queries for alert conditions.
  query="avg(last_10m):avg:aws.ec2.cpuutilization{environment:production} by {instance} > 80",
  message="High CPU utilization detected on instance {{instance.name}}.",
  tags=["env:production", "app:webserver", "role:frontend"],
  opts=pulumi.ResourceOptions(provider=datadog_provider))

pulumi.export('datadog_aws_integration_setup', aws_integration.setup)
pulumi.export('datadog_monitor_id', anomaly_monitor.id)
```

In this code:

- We set up the Datadog provider with your API and Application keys.
- We create an integration with AWS using `datadog.AwsIntegration`, providing the necessary AWS account information and specific configurations.
- A Datadog monitor of type `query alert` is set up to watch the CPU utilization of your AWS EC2 instances and alert you if the CPU utilization goes above 80% over the last 10 minutes.
- By setting up this infrastructure as code, it becomes easy to replicate, version control, and audit your monitoring setup.

Please replace `"your-datadog-api-key"`, `"your-datadog-application-key"`, and `"your-aws-account-id"` with your actual Datadog API and application key, and your AWS account ID before running this program. The role name provided in `role_name` should match the IAM role that you have created in AWS which allows Datadog to collect metrics.

You should also tailor the `query` field to the specific metric you're interested in monitoring for predictive analytics, along with the `message` field that specifies the alert message you'll receive. The `tags` associated with the various resources are used for sorting and categorizing, so change them according to your needs.

Make sure you have the relevant IAM permissions in AWS for Datadog to integrate successfully and monitor the resources you're interested in. With this set up, Datadog can start ingesting metrics, and you can utilize its AI features to gain predictive insights from your infrastructure's behavior.