Connect APVISO with Datadog

How APVISO Will Integrate with Datadog

The planned APVISO Datadog integration will bring pentest findings into the observability platform that engineering teams use for monitoring everything from application performance to infrastructure health. By treating vulnerabilities as first-class signals alongside metrics, traces, and logs, your team gets a complete picture of application risk.

Vulnerabilities as Datadog Security Signals

APVISO findings will be mapped to Datadog security signals and ingested into Cloud SIEM. Each signal includes the vulnerability type, severity, affected service, endpoint URL, and a link to the full finding in APVISO. This means your SOC team working in Datadog Cloud SIEM sees pentest-confirmed vulnerabilities alongside other threat detections — correlating real attack traffic with proven exploitability.

Security signals from APVISO will follow Datadog's severity model (Critical, High, Medium, Low, Info) with a direct mapping from APVISO's severity ratings. Detection rules can be created to escalate signals based on additional context — for example, escalating a High-severity finding to Critical if the affected service handles PII.

Custom Metrics for Security Posture Tracking

Beyond individual findings, APVISO will send aggregate metrics to Datadog that enable continuous security posture monitoring:

• apviso.findings.open — Number of open findings, tagged by severity and target
• apviso.findings.new — New findings discovered in the latest scan
• apviso.findings.resolved — Findings verified as fixed
• apviso.scans.completed — Scan completion count
• apviso.remediation.mttr — Mean time to remediate, by severity

These metrics can be graphed on Datadog dashboards, used in monitors, and included in SLO calculations. A team might set an SLO that 95% of Critical findings are remediated within 48 hours, tracked automatically through APVISO metrics in Datadog.

Service Catalog Enrichment

Datadog's Service Catalog provides a centralized inventory of your services with ownership, documentation, and operational metadata. APVISO will enrich this catalog by attaching vulnerability data to each service. When an engineer views a service in the catalog, they will see the number of open vulnerabilities by severity, the date of the last security scan, and a link to the service's findings in APVISO.

This is valuable for on-call engineers who need to quickly assess the security posture of a service they are responsible for. It is also useful for engineering managers reviewing the overall health of their team's services — security vulnerabilities are surfaced alongside reliability metrics, deployment frequency, and incident counts.

Dashboard Integration

The APVISO integration tile will include pre-built dashboards that combine security and observability data:

• Security Posture Overview: Open findings by severity over time, scan frequency, and MTTR trends
• Service Risk Matrix: A heat map showing services by their vulnerability count and traffic volume — highlighting high-risk, high-traffic services that need immediate attention
• Scan Activity Log: A timeline of APVISO scans with results, linked to deployment events from Datadog's change tracking

Teams can embed APVISO widgets in their existing Datadog dashboards to add security context without switching between platforms. A team's operational dashboard might show error rates, latency percentiles, and open security findings side by side.

Monitor-Based Alerting

Datadog monitors will work with APVISO metrics and events to provide flexible alerting:

• Alert when a new Critical finding is discovered (via security signal detection rule)
• Alert when the total count of open High+ findings exceeds a threshold
• Alert when a finding has been open longer than the SLA period
• Alert when a scan fails to complete, indicating potential infrastructure issues

These monitors integrate with Datadog's notification channels — including PagerDuty, Slack, email, and webhooks — providing yet another path for APVISO findings to reach the right responders through the channels they already have configured.

Correlation with Application Performance Data

One of the unique advantages of the Datadog integration is the ability to correlate vulnerability data with application performance telemetry. If APVISO discovers a slow response on a specific endpoint during scanning, the APM trace for that request is available in Datadog. If a vulnerability involves a specific API route, Datadog can show the request volume, error rate, and latency for that route — helping teams prioritize remediation based on both exploitability and business impact.