Assignment - AGENT

Tathagata Chakraborty — Tue, 30 May 2023 12:34:20 +0000

What is Agent?
Agent is a computer system that consist with Collector and Forwarder help to take the data from the system with the help of collector and Forwarder take those data from collector and send it for view.

How to install Agent?
Once we create a windows server, we need to first download the windows agent login and then need to install that.
For Linux\Unix server, once we created the server, we need to generate the key and then using that comment with the key we will install the agent on Putty.
How to configure agent?

For configure the Agent we need to edit datadog.yaml as per our requirement.

Location of Agent in windows? - C:\ProgramData\Datadog (First we need to unhide Program Data)

Observability

Tathagata Chakraborty — Tue, 30 May 2023 06:12:12 +0000

What is observability?
Observability provides the necessary date to make things easy. It's gives us real time and comprehensive data which help us to reduce reliability metrics.

Why observability is important?
To Build tame dynamic environment which helps changing complexity. It generates the data of Traces, Metrics and Logs.
How to do observability?
Observabilities have three pillars (Metrics, Traces and Logs).

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Assignment - AGENT

Observability