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Deborah Mahima
Deborah Mahima

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Understanding Datadog agent

  • What is Datadog agent?
    The Datadog Agent is software that runs on your hosts.
    It collects events and metrics from hosts and sends them to Datadog, where you can analyze your monitoring and performance data.

  • Type of Datadog Agent?
    StatsD
    DogstatsD

  • Ports used to in Datadog agent?
    443/tcp, 123/udp

  • Top 5 commands with simple explanation troubleshooting Datadog agent?

$ systemctl start datadog-agent
$ systemctl stop datadog-agent
$ systemctl restart datadog-agent
$ systemctl status datadog-agent`
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  • Locate how to enable Logs monitoring in datadog.yaml
    Edit the datadog-values.yaml file and locate.

  • 5 techniques for troubleshooting Datadog?
    1] check the API token
    2] check the site
    3] check if agent is running or not

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