Datadog Cloud Monitoring Quick Start Guide

Datadog is an essential cloud monitoring and operational analytics tool which enables the monitoring of servers, virtual machines, containers, databases, third-party tools, and application services. IT and DevOps teams can easily leverage Datadog to monitor infrastructure and cloud services, and this book will show you how.
The book starts by describing basic monitoring concepts and types of monitoring that are rolled out in a large-scale IT production engineering environment. Moving on, the book covers how standard monitoring features are implemented on the Datadog platform and how they can be rolled out in a real-world production environment. As you advance, you'll discover how Datadog is integrated with popular software components that are used to build cloud platforms. The book also provides details on how to use monitoring standards such as Java Management Extensions (JMX) and StatsD to extend the Datadog platform. Finally, you'll get to grips with monitoring fundamentals, learn how monitoring can be rolled out using Datadog proactively, and find out how to extend and customize the Datadog platform.
By the end of this Datadog book, you will have gained the skills needed to monitor your cloud infrastructure and the software applications running on it using Datadog.

Type
ebook
Category
Programming
publication date
2021-06-25
what you will learn

Understand monitoring fundamentals, including metrics, monitors, alerts, and thresholds
Implement core monitoring requirements using Datadog features
Explore Datadog s integration with cloud platforms and tools
Extend Datadog using custom scripting and standards such as JMX and StatsD
Discover how proactive monitoring can be rolled out using various Datadog features
Understand how Datadog can be used to monitor microservices in both Docker and Kubernetes environments
Get to grips with advanced Datadog features such as APM and Security Monitoring

no of pages
318
duration
636
key features
Learn Datadog to proactively monitor your infrastructure and cloud services * Use Datadog as a platform for aggregating monitoring efforts in your organization * Leverage Datadog's alerting service to implement on-call and site reliability engineering (SRE) processes
approach
Complete with step-by-step explanations of essential concepts, and practical examples, you will be able to use Datadog to monitor cloud-scale applications, servers, containers and databases
audience
This book is for DevOps engineers, site reliability engineers (SREs), IT Production engineers, software developers and architects, cloud engineers, system administrators, and anyone looking to monitor and visualize their infrastructure and applications with Datadog. Basic working knowledge of cloud and infrastructure is useful. Working experience of Linux distribution and some scripting knowledge is required to fully take advantage of the material provided in the book.
meta description
A comprehensive guide to rolling out Datadog to monitor infrastructure and applications running in both cloud and datacenter environments
short description
Datadog is a comprehensive SaaS-based monitoring platform that can be used to proactively track resources such as virtual machines and containers, processes, and device performance. The Datadog Cloud Monitoring Quick Start Guide will help you to implement common monitoring functionalities by mapping these monitoring functions to Datadog features.
subtitle
Proactively create dashboards, write scripts, manage alerts, and monitor containers using Datadog
keywords
datadog, cloud monitoring, infrastructure monitoring, network monitoring, application monitoring, log analysis, operational intelligence, siem, threat intelligence, cyber intelligence, security analytics
Product ISBN
9781800568730