Datadog day-1 assignment

Q1. What is Datadog Agent?
Ans.: The Datadog Agent is software that runs on the hosts machine/server. It collects events and metrics from hosts and sends them to Datadog, where you can analyze your monitoring and performance data.

Q2. What are list of methods to send data to Datadog?
Ans.: Following are the methods to send data to Datadog:

1. Datadog agent
2. DogstasD (Custom Metrics)

3. API

4. Top 10 commands of Datadog Agent
   Ans.: Following are the top 10 commands of Datadog agent:

5. datadog-agent run

6. datadog-agent configcheck

7. datadog-agent health

8. datadog-agent hostname

9. datadog-agent status

10. datadog-agent check

11. datadog-agent stop

12. datadog-agent version

13. datadog-agent stream-logs

14. datadog-agent dogstasd-stats

15. Top 10 Techniques for troubleshooting Datadog Agent
    Ans.: Following are the top 10 techniques for troubleshooting Datadog Agent:

Check status of Datadog agent using datadog-agent status.
Check datadog.yaml file for correct indentation or misconfiguration.
Check status of site URL configured in datadog.yaml.
Check for permission issues for running that agent.
Check the integration installation in Datadog portal.
Check for the API Key correctness in datadog.yaml used from Datadog portal.

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