The list of COMMON Steps to Gather Metrics using Datadog Integration & Top 10 data dog agent commands with their use cases.

Nelson Thangaraj — Tue, 13 Dec 2022 11:47:07 +0000

1) The list of COMMON Steps to Gather Metrics using Datadog Integration

• Install datadog agent.
• Install specific software(app's/db's) (eg) Apache/Tomcat/mysql on server or verify existing servrs.
• On Datadog UI select type of Integration(app's/db's) (eg) Apache/Tomcat/mysql which needs to be installed.
• For each type update config file to gather metric on datadog-agent Linux(/etc/datadog/datadog.yaml)
• make sure App's/db's are started up.
• Restart datadog-agent after the changes.

2) Top 10 data dog agent commands with their use cases.

• datadog-agent status - check the status of datadog agent.
• datadog-agent config - runtime configuration of datadog agent.
• datadog-agent configcheck - all loaded and resolved configuration of datadog agent.
• datadog-agent run - start datadog agent.
• datadog-agent stop - stop datadog agent.
• datadog-agent version - display datadog agent version.
• datadog-agent check - run specific check.
• datadog-agent help - help about specific command.
• datadog-agent hostname - print hostname of datadog-agent.
• datadog-agent health - print datadog-agent health.

What is observability and how to implement

Nelson Thangaraj — Mon, 12 Dec 2022 05:28:31 +0000

Observability is advanced way of collecting data, analyzing, responding and prediction .
Generally it collects (Metrics/Traces/Logs/Monitoring) via API

To implement Observability we can user some of tools like Datadog/Splunk/Grafana etc.

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The list of COMMON Steps to Gather Metrics using Datadog Integration & Top 10 data dog agent commands with their use cases.

What is observability and how to implement