DataDog Assignment Day 1 Agents & Integrations

ANUJ SHARMA — Mon, 26 Sep 2022 12:52:55 +0000

Top 7 commands of Datadog agent and its use cases Ans Top 7 commands of Datadog agent and its use cases
datadog-agent status -> to check status of agent
datadog-agent version -> to check version of agent
datadog-agent help -> help and syntax check of commands
datadog-agent config -> configuraion management
datadog-agent configcheck print all configurations
datadog-agent health -> Print the current Agent health
datadog-agent hostname -> Print the hostname used by the Agent
Write down the steps to enable any integration in datadog?
Ans The following steps should be performed to enable any integration in DataDog
Install DataDog agent in OS and update the patch level.
Install required software/package, check its service running status, enable it
Select Integration option in Integrations Menu Option in Menu
Search for the software which you have installed in target OS.
Read for instructions in Configure Tab and follow them to enable settings which will enable export of Metrics to
datadog agent.
Enable integration of datadog agent to collect Metrics exported by software
Now enable Integration by Installing Integration in DataDog (In that software page, Click Install Integration)
Verify new data/metrics received after Integration in Metrics-> Explorer Option
Top 10 Metrices of Linux Servers which you should care it?
Ans Following are top 10 Metrices of Linux Servers
Cpu Utilisation
Memory Utilisation
Disk Utilisation
System Load Check
Network Utilisation
Process Statistics
I/O statistics
Zombie process check
No of ssh connections
Port Statistics
Top 10 Metrices of Windows Servers which you should care it?
Ans Following are top 10 Metrices of Windows Servers
Cpu Utilisation
Memory Utilisation
Drives Utilisation
System Load Check
Network Utilisation
Process Statistics
I/O statistics
Zombie process check
No of RDP connections
Disk statistics
Top 5 Metrices of Apache which you should not miss it?
Ans Following are top 5 Metrices of Apache
Total no of Web requests
Server CPU/Memory Load
Response time of server
No of Idle connections
Bytes received/sent

What is observability and How to practice observability?

ANUJ SHARMA — Mon, 26 Sep 2022 05:18:18 +0000

What is observability?
Ans. Observability is superset of Monitoring in a sense that Monitoring is Alerting + Overview of Incident and Observability is Alerting + Overview + Debugging + Tracing + Logging.
To summarise Monitoring tells you a system is working or not, observability asks and gives details why it isn't working.
How to practice observability?
Ans. We can practice observability by applying MELT i.e
Metrics
Events
Logging
Tracing
What are the datatypes we need to collection to setup observability?
Ans The datatypes for setup of observability is
Performace Metrics
Traces
Past Logs
Errors Counts

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DataDog Assignment Day 1 Agents & Integrations

What is observability and How to practice observability?