--- title: Monitor Apigee X API traffic and security with Datadog description: Datadog's Google Cloud Apigee X integration collects metrics under the gcp.apigee.* namespace automatically once the Google Cloud integration is configured.... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/monitor-apigee-x-api-traffic-and-security-with-datadog-aubsrqymd twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: Monitor Apigee X API traffic and security with Datadog | daily.dev og:description: Datadog's Google Cloud Apigee X integration collects metrics under the gcp.apigee.* namespace automatically once the Google Cloud integration is configured.... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/monitor-apigee-x-api-traffic-and-security-with-datadog-aubsrqymd og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/auBsrqYMd.png og:image:alt: Monitor Apigee X API traffic and security with Datadog og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # Monitor Apigee X API traffic and security with Datadog **[Datadog](https://daily.dev/sources/datadog)** · 7 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary Datadog's Google Cloud Apigee X integration collects metrics under the gcp.apigee.* namespace automatically once the Google Cloud integration is configured. Key metrics include proxy request/response counts, E2E and backend latency, environment-level traffic, anomaly counts, and Advanced API Security scores. The post explains how to distinguish proxy overhead from backend latency, differentiate benign traffic spikes from security attacks using security score and incident request count metrics, build dashboards and monitors tied to SLOs, and correlate metrics with logs and distributed traces via OpenTelemetry and the Datadog Agent for full root-cause analysis. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. 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