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Akanksha Srivastava
Akanksha Srivastava

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Datadog Assignment - 17Jan

  1. What is Datadog Agent?
    The Datadog Agent is leightweight software that runs on hosts. Its function is to collect events and metrics from hosts and sends them to Datadog, where one can analyze and monitor performance metrics.

  2. What are list of methods to send data to Datadog?
    Collector and DatastatsD collets data from host infra and host application metrics and send to forwarder using TCP protocol
    Forwarder send data to DataDog cloud using http protocol.

  3. Top 10 commands of Datadog Agent
    datadog-agent check
    datadog-agent status
    datadog-agent stop
    datadog-agent run
    datadog-agent hostname
    datadog-agent launch-gui
    datadog-agent version
    datadog-agent diagnose
    datadog-agent config
    datadog-agent healthh

  4. Top 10 Techniques for troubleshooting Datadog Agent
    Check Datadog Agent Process is running or not
    Check Datadog Agent Logs for Error
    Check Datadog Agent Configuration file(datadog.yaml) syntax error
    Check Datadog Integration Configuration file(datadog.yaml) syntax Error
    Check Datadog Agent API Key in datadog.yaml
    Print the runtime configuration of a running agent
    Print all configurations loaded & resolved of a running agent
    Execute some connectivity diagnosis on your system
    Print the current agent health
    Print basic statistics on the metrics processed by dogstatsd.

  5. Top 10 Metrices of Linux Servers which you should care it?
    system.cpu.idle
    system.cpu.iowait
    system.cpu.system
    system.cpu.user
    system.disk.in_use
    system.disk.total
    system.disk.used
    system.disk.write_time
    system.mem.total
    system.mem.usable
    system.mem.used

  6. Write down the steps to enable any integration in datadog?
    Install datadog-agent
    Integrate any service like apache by going to Integration- Integrations and search for the service and Install it
    Follow the steps to configure that connection in the config files
    Validate

  7. Top 10 Metrices of Windows Servers which you should care it?
    system.cpu.idle
    system.cpu.system
    system.cpu.user
    system.disk.free
    system.disk.in_use
    system.disk.used
    system.mem.cached
    system.mem.committed
    system.mem.total
    system.mem.used

  8. Top 5 Metrices of Apache which you should not miss it?
    apache.net.bytes_per_s
    apache.net.request_per_s
    apache.performance.busy_workers
    apache.performance.cpu_load
    apache.performance.max_workers

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