Debug School

Akhilesh Kumar Kamal
Akhilesh Kumar Kamal

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DataDog - Day 1 session.

What is Obserbability?
A unified observability platform provides full visibility into the health and performance of each layer of your environment at a glance

What is Datadog?
Datadog is an observability service for cloud-scale applications, providing monitoring of servers, databases, tools, and services, through a SaaS-based data analytics

What is Datadog Agent? -- Data dog Agent is a lightweight software running on your host. Its function is to faithfully collect events and performance indicators for you and transmit them to Datadog so that you can use these monitoring and running data to do something

What is DogstatsD?
DogStatsD accepts custom metrics, events, and service checks over UDP and periodically aggregates and forwards them to Datadog
How Datadog works? - Datadog uses a Go-based agent and its backend is made from Apache Cassandra, PostgreSQL and Kafka. A Rest application program interface (API) is used to allow Datadog to integrate with numerous services, tools, and programming languages. Integrations such as Kubernetes, Chef, Puppet, Ansible, Ubuntu and Bitbucket.

Top 10 commands used in Datadog Agent?
systemctl stop datadog-agent
systemctl start datadog-agent
systemctl restart datadog-agent

What is Datadog config file and which config you used today?
/etc/datadog-agent/datadog.yaml
%ProgramData%\Datadog\datadog.yaml

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