Datadog Assignment 1

What is Observability and its advantage?

It is reactive in a way that it will gives information that why the monitoring not working. It helps in debuging the system. Metrics, Traces and Logs are the pillars.

Metrics(Infra)+Trace(APM)+Log+Uptime+UX+Security

Advantages:

1. It helps in time saving
2. It increases automation
3. Actionable alerting
4. Real time integration dashboard
5. Real user monitoring, etc

Difference between Observability and Monitoring?

• Monitoring is a proactive method where we can check if the system is available or healthy.
• Observability is a reactive method where we will be debugging the system when an issue occurs.

What is Datadog?

• It is a service which collects Metrics, Traces, Logs and presents the visualization of those collected. It has 600+ integrations.
• It uses Microservices architecture
• It collects the info of availability, performance and reliability for Application, Network and Server.

What is Datadog Agent and How it works?

• It is a light weight software installed on the host.
• It reports metrics and events from the host to datadog.
• It is written in Go Lang.

Component of Datadog Agent and short intro for each

• Collector - collects all standard metrics
• DogStatsD - The statsD code is modified with extension. It accepts metrices, events and services checks.
• Forwarder - Forwards the info from collector and DogstatsD over HTTPS to the datadog.