• What is Datadog?
DataDog is cloud based monitoring tool equipped with Monitoring, Obserbability, and Tracing feature.
• What is Datadog Agent and How it works?
DataDog agent is a daemon to collect matrix,
Agent having different components like DataStatD, Collector and Forwarder feature to collect, recognized and Forward matrix to DataDog Cloud for published into Dashboard.
• Component of Datadog Agent and short intro for each.
DataStatD : A metrics aggregation service bundled with the DataDog Agent.
Collector: The collector gathers all standard metrics every 15 seconds.
Forwarder: Specific daemon to connect and forward matrix to DataDog Cloud database.
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Top 10 commands of Datadog Agent $ systemctl start datadog-agent
$ systemctl stop datadog-agent
$ systemctl restart datadog-agent
$ systemctl status datadog-agent
$ ls /var/log/datadog/
$ more /etc/datadog-agent/datadog.yaml
$ more /var/log/datadog/agent.log
$ more /var/log/datadog/process-agent.log
$ more /var/log/datadog/trace-agent.log
$ datadog-agent configcheck
$ datadog-agent config
$ datadog-agent health
$ datadog-agent hostname
$ datadog-agent version
2 Locate how to enable Process monitoring in datadog.yaml?
/etc/datadog-agent/datadog.yaml
3 Top 5 Techniques for troubleshooting Datadog Agent
Assignment - II