Datadog Cloud Monitoring Quick Start Guide
eBook - ePub

Datadog Cloud Monitoring Quick Start Guide

  1. 318 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

Datadog Cloud Monitoring Quick Start Guide

About this book

A comprehensive guide to rolling out Datadog to monitor infrastructure and applications running in both cloud and datacenter environmentsKey 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) processesBook DescriptionDatadog 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.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 MonitoringWho this book is forThis 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.

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Table of contents

  1. Datadog Cloud Monitoring Quick Start Guide
  2. Contributors
  3. Preface
  4. Section 1: Getting Started with Datadog
  5. Chapter 1: Introduction to Monitoring
  6. Chapter 2: Deploying the Datadog Agent
  7. Chapter 3: The Datadog Dashboard
  8. Chapter 4: Account Management
  9. Chapter 5: Metrics, Events, and Tags
  10. Chapter 6: Monitoring Infrastructure
  11. Chapter 7: Monitors and Alerts
  12. Section 2: Extending Datadog
  13. Chapter 8: Integrating with Platform Components
  14. Chapter 9: Using the Datadog REST API
  15. Chapter 10: Working with Monitoring Standards
  16. Chapter 11: Integrating with Datadog
  17. Section 3: Advanced Monitoring
  18. Chapter 12: Monitoring Containers
  19. Chapter 13: Managing Logs Using Datadog
  20. Chapter 14: Miscellaneous Monitoring Topics
  21. Other Books You May Enjoy