Datadog Training

Module1: Overview

• Introduction to Datadog
• Why Datadog
• Datadog Architecture
• Datadog in DevOps cycle

Module2: Datadog Setup

• Sign up and Sign in
• Overview of Application
• Configure Agent on Mac
• Git Bash for Windows
• Configure the Agent on Windows

Module3: Datadog for the DevOps Engineer or Developer

• Building Stages
• Introduction to APM
• Incoming Error
• HostMap
• Alerting 101
• Database Management
• Alerting using Slack
• Apdex
• RUM
• SLO and SL
• Synthetic Testing
• Building Dashboards

Module4: Real-time case studies 

• Forecasts
• Using the API through Postman
• DataDog - CLI

Module1: Introduction to Performance Monitoring Tool

• What is a Performance Monitoring Tool?

Module2: Getting Started with Datadog

• Define Datadog and What is the importance of Datadog
• Pricing Information: free options and paid options
• Basic Definitions - tags, agent, and host
• Registration and Agent Installation

Module3: Datadog Agent

• Datadog Agent - configurations and definitions
• Datadog Agent - Displaying Host basic meters and default host dashboards
• Datadog Agent - integration with the Internet Information Server(IIS)

Module4: Datadog Infrastructure and Metrics

• Host Maps and Infrastructure List
• Metrics Explorer and Metrics Summary
• Metrics Types

Module5: Datadog APM

• Monitoring the DogsWorld Application as per .NET core using APM
• Downloading, Installing and Configuring the Datadog APM
• APM Service Map and Services
• APM Traces - Basic Search, Search Pane, Facets, 
• APM Traces - Span list, System Tags, and Flame Graph
• APM Profiling
• APM Traces - Error Tracing

Module6: Datadog APM

• Introduction to Custom Tags
• Sending the Custom Tags through .NET Tracer Nuget Package
• Custom Tags, Filter, Search, and Facet Tag

Module7: Datadog Dashboards

• Dashboard Definitions and Lists
• Creating a New Dashboard with various widgets
• Importing Widgets or Graphs into the Dashboards from the Metrics and Services Page
• Dashboard - Import and Export as JSON
• Utilizing Variables

Module8: Datadog Monitors and Notifications by Email, PagerDuty, and Slack

• Creating Monitors
• Suggested Monitors
• Managing Monitors
• Integration with the Slack
• Creating an Account in PagerDuty
• Integration with PagerDuty

Module9: Datadog: SLA, SLI, SLO, and Error Budget

• Datadog: SLI, SLO, Error Budget, and SLA
• Creating SLO, Setup Alerts, and Data Correlation

Module10: Synthetic Monitoring

• Define Synthetic Monitoring
• Creating Browser and API Tests

Module11: Log Management Fundamentals

• Define Log Management System
• How to Log Data through NLog
• Log Exceptions and Log Explorer

Module12: Notebook

• What is a Notebook?
• Creating Documentation Kind of Notebooks
• Investigating the Exception through Notebook and Collaborate with other users
• Notebook Templates

Module13: NodeJS with MongoDB application Monitoring in Datadog

• Configuring NodeJS application with MongoDB locally from GitHub
• Configuring NodeJS Custom Metrics
• Configuring NodeJS Traces and Services
• NodeJS and MongoDB Service Catalog
• NodeJS Traces