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# Cloud Service Discovery and Additional Protocols

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##### Join the Preview!

Cloud service discovery and support for additional protocols and traffic encryption methods are in Preview.
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## Discovering cloud services and third-party APIs{% #discovering-cloud-services-and-third-party-apis %}

After access to the preview has been granted in your Datadog organization, Universal Service Monitoring discovers cloud services, such as AWS S3, and third-party API endpoints that your application depends on by observing the outbound requests sent to these services. You can view these services in the service map to understand service-to-service dependencies and get health metrics for them, including throughput, error count, and latency.

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   source="https://docs.dd-static.net/images/universal_service_monitoring/usm-beta-cloud-service-discovery.d156ee693892c82f402c3ec8b3ab6337.png?auto=format&fit=max&w=850 1x, https://docs.dd-static.net/images/universal_service_monitoring/usm-beta-cloud-service-discovery.d156ee693892c82f402c3ec8b3ab6337.png?auto=format&fit=max&w=850&dpr=2 2x"
   alt="Service summary, metrics, and service map for a cloud service detected by USM" /%}

Universal Service Monitoring can discover the following third-party API endpoints: Jira, Slack, Auth0, Splunk, HubSpot, Intercom, Stripe, SendGrid, Braintree, Mapbox, Twitter (X), Palo Alto Networks, TowerData, SoundCloud, Amplitude, Render, Mixpanel, GitHub, and OpenAI.

## Further reading{% #further-reading %}

- [Universal Service Monitoring](https://docs.datadoghq.com/universal_service_monitoring/)
- [Golden signals in seconds with Universal Service Monitoring](https://www.datadoghq.com/blog/universal-service-monitoring-datadog/)