Debug School: Sumit Kumar

Top 10 data dog agent commands with their use cases

Sumit Kumar — Tue, 13 Dec 2022 11:45:12 +0000

Systemctl stop datadog-agent –> stop the service of datadog
Systemctl start datadog-agent –> start the service of datadog
Systemctl status datadog-agent –> check the status of service of datadog
Systemctl restart datadog-agent –> restart the service of datadog
Datadog-agent status –> to check the details status of datadog
Datadog-agent config –> to check the current details configuration datadog
datadog-agent configcheck –> to check the current metrics being sent to datadog
datadog-agent health –> check the health of components of datadog
datadog-agent hostname –> check the hostname of datadog installed
datadog-agent version –> check the version of datadog installed

The list of COMMON Steps to Gather Metrices using Datadog Integration

Sumit Kumar — Tue, 13 Dec 2022 11:35:51 +0000

The list of COMMON Steps to Gather Metrices using Datadog Integration

Enable the integration from datadog console
follow the instruction on datadog integration page
after modification yaml file in conf.d//
Restart the agent and check the status

a. systemctl restart datadog-agent
b. systemctl status datadog-agent
c. datadog-agent status
d. datadog-agent configcheck

Check the integration status from datadog console after some time and explore the metrics

What is observability and how to implement

Sumit Kumar — Mon, 12 Dec 2022 05:24:15 +0000

Observability is more that monitoring to deep dive into event / traces using AI and come up with knowledgeable insights. e.g monitoring will tell system is down but observability will explain why its down.

A platform such as datadog can help in implementation the same such as metrics , traces , APM, Alerting etc.