Shipping FSx for ONTAP Logs to Datadog (opens in new tab)

TL;DR Deploy a CloudFormation stack, configure ONTAP audit logging, and see structured file access events in Datadog Log Explorer within minutes — no EC2, no NFS mounts, no agents. This post walks through the full implementation: CloudFormation template, Lambda handler code, Datadog field mapping, and operational validation. What We're Building In Part 1, I introduced the architecture: FSx for ONTAP audit volume → S3 Access Point → EventBridge Scheduler → Lambda → Datadog. Now let's build it....