Agent-Assignment

Awanish Kesarwani — Tue, 30 May 2023 12:18:49 +0000

What is Agent?
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. (Controller to forwarder)

How to install Agent?
DatadogHq->Download->Install with Key

How to configure agent?
Process file need to get enabled

Location of Agent in windows?
Config File: C:\ProgramData\Datadog\datadog.yaml(Unhide hidden File)

Observability

Awanish Kesarwani — Tue, 30 May 2023 06:05:24 +0000

1.What is observability?

observability is the ability to measure a system's current state based on the data it generates, such as logs, metrics, and traces. Observability relies on telemetry derived from instrumentation that comes from the endpoints and services in your multi-cloud computing environments.

2.Why observability is important?

It allows you to collect, aggregate, and correlate real-time data so that you can analyze what's happening in your environment for better overall service outcomes

3.How to do observability?

(A)You need to have persona-based dashboards that help individual users gain actionable intelligence
(B)Logs, metrics and traces.
(C)Observability helps to understand what's going on in production, makes it work better for end users, and eliminates the need for debugging in a Production environment.

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Agent-Assignment

Observability