GATLING + DATADOG
Correlate load test results
with Datadog telemetry
Datadog shows how your systems behave in production.Gatling adds controlled, repeatable load so Datadog metrics and traces become reproducible and attributable under stress.
With Gatling and Datadog, teams investigate p95/p99 spikes, error cliffs, and saturation events directly inside Datadog dashboards — using the same workflows they already rely on for production.
Why combine load testing and Datadog?
Datadog is excellent for production visibility — but production data alone is noisy and hard to reproduce. Gatling introduces timed stimulus: the ability to apply a known workload and observe exactly how the system behaves across services, infrastructure, and dependencies.
Combining Gatling with Datadog lets teams:
reproduce p99 inflation with controlled concurrency
correlate Gatling percentiles with Datadog traces and infra KPIs
isolate bottlenecks across edge, gateway, services, and dependencies
validate regressions across releases using repeatable traffic profiles
Load testing alone shows symptoms like slow response times, but not where time is actually spent. Observability alone shows production behavior, but doesn’t reproduce failure conditions on demand. When you correlate both, you can trace performance across every layer under controlled load. That’s what makes results actionable.
Mateusz Piasta
Inpost
CORRELATION UNDER LOAD
What Gatling unlocks inside Datadog
Controlled load turns observability from monitoring into diagnosis.
Reproducible performance investigations
Replay workloads and compare Datadog telemetry across runs.
Measured system limits, not assumptions
Quantify saturation thresholds visible in Datadog.
Continuous regression signals
Track performance drift across builds directly in Datadog.
Bottleneck attribution across layers
Correlate p99 spikes with Datadog traces and infra data.
REPLAY
Bring Gatling Results to Datadog
Learn how to run real-world load tests and explore
how to surface metrics in Datadog for instant visibility.
INSTALLATION GUIDES
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