Datadog
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- What are the component of a Datadog agent?
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- Collector: its role is to collect data from the host on which it's installed. The default period of time as of today is every 15 seconds.
- Forwarder: responsible for sending the data to Datadog over HTTPS
- What can you tell about Datadog integrations?
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- Datadog has many supported integrations with different services, platforms, etc.
- Each integration includes information on how to apply it, how to use it and what configuration options it supports
- What opening some of the integrations windows/pages, there is a ection called "Monitors". What can be found there?
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Usually you can find there some anomaly types that Datadog suggests to monitor and track.
Basics 5 questions
- Describe at least three use cases for using something like Datadog. Can be as specific as you would like
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- Monitor instances/servers downtime
- Detect anomalies and send an alert when it happens
- Service request or response latency
- What ways are there to collect or send data to Datadog?
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- Datadog agent installed on the device or location which you would like to monitor
- Using Datadog API
- Built-in integrations
- What is a host in regards to Datadog?
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Any physical or virtual instance that is monitored with Datadog. Few examples:
- Cloud Instance, Virtual Machine
- Bare metal node
- Platform or service specific nodes like Kubernetes node
Basically any device or location that has Datadog agent installed and running on.
- What is a Datadog agent?
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A software runs on a Datadog host. Its purpose is to collect data from the host and sent it to Datadog (data like metrics, logs, etc.)
- What are Datadog tags?
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Datadog tags are used to mark different information with unique properties. For example, you might want to tag some data with "environment: production" while tagging information from staging or dev environment with "environment: staging".