Datadog Assignment: Infra (17th Jan' 23)

Akshata — Tue, 17 Jan 2023 17:42:36 +0000

Q1. What is Datadog Agent?
Ans - Datadog Agent collects events and metrics from hosts and forwards them to Datadog.

Q2. What are list of methods to send data to Datadog?
Ans - Data can be sent to Datadog via container, cloud environment, application and forwarders. Example: Docker, AWs, Azure, GCP.

Q3. Top 10 commands of Datadog Agent
Ans - Following are the commands:

systemctl start datadog-agent
systemctl stop datadog-agent
systemctl restart datadog-agent
systemctl status datadog-agent
more /etc/datadog-agent/datadog.yaml
datadog-agent configcheck
datadog-agent config
datadog-agent health
datadog-agent hostname
datadog-agent version

Q4. Top 10 Techniques for troubleshooting Datadog Agent
Ans - Following can be used for troubleshooting Datadog Agent:

Check status of agent
Restart the agent
Check health of the agent

Q5. Top 10 Metrices of Linux Servers which you should care it?
Ans - Metrices are as follows:

CPU usage
Processes Memory usage
Load Average
Memory breakdown
Disk usage by device (%)
Disk Latency (by device)
Network traffic (bytes per sec)

Q6. Write down the steps to enable any integration in datadog?
Ans - Following are the steps to integrate Apache in Datadog:

Install datadog-agent
Install Apache HTTPD server
Click on Apache in the Integrations
Enable mod_status & ExtendedStatus in Apache
Enable Datadog Apache Integration
Click on “Install Integration”
Verify the Apache Metrix on Datadog Console

Q7. Top 10 Metrices of Windows Servers which you should care it?
Ans - Windows Metrices:

CPU
Memory
Disk
Network
Event logs

Q8. Top 5 Metrices of Apache which you should not miss it?
Ans - Metrices of Apache:

apache.performance.cpu_load
apache.performance.idle_workers
apache.performance.max_workers
apache.performance.busy_workers
apache.scoreboard.reading_request

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Datadog Assignment: Infra (17th Jan' 23)