Datadog - Agents & Integrations - Day 1

Ankit Chauhan — Mon, 26 Sep 2022 12:05:00 +0000

Top 7 commands of Datadog agent and its use cases?
datadog-agent configcheck - Print all configurations loaded & resolved of a running agent
datadog-agent config - Print the runtime configuration of a running agent
datadog-agent health - Print the current agent health
datadog-agent hostname - Print the hostname used by the Agent
datadog-agent version - Print the version info
datadog-agent diagnose - Check availability of cloud provider and container metadata endpoints
datadog-agent help - Help about any command
Write down the steps to enable any integration in Datadog?
Install Datadog Agent on the respective OS (Linux/CentOS/Windows)
Install the middleware for which integration is needed Like - Apache/Sql/IIS.
Go to Datadog console -> Integrations -> Search for required Integrations.
Perform and Install the precheck required for that particular Integration to capture the required Metrix.
Enable Datadog Integration configuration to start collecting your required Metrix.
Click on "Install Integration".
Verify the Metrix for the required Integrations on Datadog console.
Top 10 Metrices of Linux Servers which you should care it?
system.cpu.iowait
system.disk.free
system.disk.total
system.fs.file_handles.in_use
system.cpu.idle
system.io.util
system.load.1
system.mem.cached
system.mem.free
10.system.net.bytes_rcvd
Top 10 Metrices of Windows Servers which you should care it?
system.cpu.guest
system.cpu.idle
system.disk.free
system.disk.used
system.io.avg_q_sz
system.mem.cached
system.mem.paged
system.mem.used
system.net.bytes_rcvd
system.net.bytes_sent
Top 5 Metrices of Apache which you should not miss it?
apache.performance.cpu_load
apache.net.bytes_per_s
apache.net.hits
apache.net.request_per_s
apache.performance.uptime

Observability - Superset of Monitoring.

Ankit Chauhan — Mon, 26 Sep 2022 05:19:44 +0000

What is observability?
Ans - Observability is a superset of monitoring. It not only provide high-level monitoring but also the depth analysis and debugging, To predict future.
How to practice observability?
Ans - Its a proactive approach , So by collecting deeper data and system insight. we can explore system issues and avoid reoccurrences. It works perfect with Complex dynamic environments.
What are the datatypes we need to collection to setup observability?
Ans - MELT - Metrics , Event , Logs, Traces

Debug School: Ankit Chauhan

Datadog - Agents & Integrations - Day 1

Observability - Superset of Monitoring.