Datadog Fundamentals & Administration Training Day 1

K.Saikrishna — Mon, 15 May 2023 12:26:30 +0000

What is Observability?
full visibility into the health and performance, customize according to customer and connect multiple vendors
What is Datadog?
cloud-scale applications, providing monitoring of servers, databases, tools, and services,

What is Datadog Agent?
it is a lightweight software running on your host

What is DogstatsD?
As it receives data, DogStatsD aggregates multiple data points for each unique metric into a single data point over a period of time called the flush interval.

How Datadog works?
it is used to allow Datadog to integrate with numerous services, tools, and programming languages. Integrations such as Kubernetes, Chef, Puppet, Ansible, Ubuntu and Bitbucket

Top 10 commands used in Datadog Agent?
systemctl start datadog-agent
systemctl stop datadog-agent
systemctl restart datadog-agent
systemctl status datadog-agent
ls /var/log/datadog/
more /etc/datadog-agent/datadog.yaml
more /var/log/datadog/agent.log
more /var/log/datadog/process-agent.log
more /var/log/datadog/trace-agent.log
datadog-agent configcheck
datadog-agent config
datadog-agent health
datadog-agent hostname
datadog-agent version
What is Datadog config file and which config you used today?

/etc/datadog-agent/datadog.yaml

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Datadog Fundamentals & Administration Training Day 1