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High level high level steps to integrate any tools and gather metrices using datadog agent

Omkar Singh — Tue, 18 Apr 2023 14:13:38 +0000

1)Select the tools which need to send data to agent like docker, kubernetes ,tomcat,mysql,db2 etc.
2) validate the tool whether it is collecting metrices or not. If not, enable it.
3)Enable integration at datadog.
4)Enable datadog to collect the metrices from integration.
5)Restart the agent.
6)Validate the metrices.

List of Top Datadog Agent commands with their usage.

Omkar Singh — Mon, 17 Apr 2023 11:39:41 +0000

1) datadog -agent ( check agentstatus)
2) systemctl start datadog-agent (to start agent)
3) systemctl stop datadog-agent (to stop agent)
4) systemctl restart datadog-agent (restart agent)
5) systemctl status datadog-agent (to check status)
6) datadog-agent configcheck (to check configuration of running agent)
7) datadog-agent config

8) datadog-agent health (Health check)
9) datadog-agent hostname (to get hostname)
10) datadog-agent version (to check version)

Obserbability explanation

Omkar Singh — Mon, 17 Apr 2023 05:24:22 +0000

An observability tool is a tool designed to monitor systems and applications via monitors, logs and other metrics.