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Datadog Foundation

Source: https://learn.datadoghq.com/courses/datadog-foundation

Introduction​

  • Datadog is a SaaS platform that does three main things:
    • collect monitoring data that our technology / systems produce
    • put it all in one place
    • organize and present it well so that we can act on it (detect issues that may be coming, diagnose them, and ultimately resolve those issues faster)

Universal Service Monitoring​

  • Universal Service Monitoring means you are looking at your services (e.g. store-frontend) across all compute instances

Universal Service Monitoring (USM) offers a view of service health metrics across your entire technology stack, without the need to instrument your code. Instead, it relies on the presence of a configured Datadog Agent and Unified Service Tagging to collect data about your existing services, which can then be viewed through the Service Catalog.

USM Lab​

  • Docker and setup stuff...not a whole lot that I'll need to deal with yet. I had to switch the schema to v2.2

Logs​

  • Datadog log management just allows you to collect, process, etc. all the logs from your various services
  • Log Explorer is the main hub for this and then you filter in the search bar or with the filtering tools

Logs Lab​

  • Finished

Continue with: https://learn.datadoghq.com/courses/take/datadog-foundation/texts/43932995-introduction-to-metrics

Metrics​

Integrations​

Dashboards​

Conclusion​