Datadog (Day-1) Assignment

Bhaskar Desharaju — Tue, 31 Jan 2023 02:42:48 +0000

1) What is Datadog Agent?
Datadog Agent is open-source software that monitors the host on which it runs. Acting as a DogStatsD server, Datadog Agent also aggregates metrics from other processes or containers on the host.

2) What are list of methods to send data to Datadog?
The following are the ways to send the data to Datadog

Collector = Configuring the Datadog Agent for Application
DogStatsD = Adding the Datadog Tracing Library to the code
Datadog_API = Rest API which can used to publish custom log/metric

3)Top 10 commands of Datadog Agent

systemctl start datadog-agent - To start the datadog-agent service
systemctl stop datadog-agent - To stop the datadog-agent service
systemctl restart datadog-agent - To restart datadog-agent post config changes
systemctl status datadog-agent - To check status of the datadog-agent service after starting
datadog-agent configcheck - To check the config changes status
datadog-agent config - To check the configuration values/files
datadog-agent health - To check datadog-agent is working as needed
datadog-agent hostname - Hostname of the datadog agent
datadog-agent version - To check current installed version
datadog-agent status - To check datadog-agent status
datadog-agent --help

4) 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
Check ENV variable set for Datadog Agent conflict with 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`

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Datadog (Day-1) Assignment