Debug School: Rajesh kumar samal

Assignment-2: Write down a high level steps to integrate any tools and gather metrices using datadog agent.

Rajesh kumar samal — Wed, 19 Apr 2023 04:12:28 +0000

Integrating Docker with Datadog and gathering metrics using datadog agent:

Step 1 - Install Docker
Step 2 - Installl datadog Agent
Step 3 - Enable DataDog-Agent to collect the Metrices from Integration
Configure the agent to connect docker by adding below line in /etc/datadog-agent/conf.d/docker.d/conf.yaml file
- url: "unix://var/run/docker.sock"
Step 4 - Create few containers
docker run -itd ubuntu

Step 5 - Restart a Datadog agent
Step 6 - Validate a Metrices in datadog

Assignment 1- Write down list of Top Datadog Agent commands with their usage ?

Rajesh kumar samal — Mon, 17 Apr 2023 11:44:27 +0000

Below are the top commands used in datadog :
1:systemctl status datadog-agent - to check the agent status
2:systemctl start datadog-agent - to start the agent
3:systemctl stop datadog-agent - to stop the agent
4:systemctl restart datadog-agent - to restart the agent
5:datadog-agent version - to check the agent version information

6:datadog-agent configcheck - to Print all configurations loaded of a running Agent.
7:datadog-agent health - to check if the agent health is Pass to check if all the components are healthy
8:datadog-agent config - to check the runtime configuration management
9:datadog-agent hostname - to get the hostname information .

Define Observability ?

Rajesh kumar samal — Mon, 17 Apr 2023 05:34:36 +0000

Observability is to know why there is issue not only to observe if there is a issue . Observability uses metrics ,logs and traces which is main component of troubleshooting the issue and provide better solution to the customer.

How to Setup the Observability ?