🐶 Datadog Flashcards
🔍 What is Datadog?
Datadog is a monitoring and security platform for cloud applications, combining metrics, traces, logs, and more.
📦 What does Datadog monitor?
It monitors infrastructure, applications, containers, cloud environments, APIs, and user experience.
⚙️ What is Datadog Agent?
A lightweight software that collects metrics, logs, and traces from hosts and forwards them to Datadog.
📈 What is the Infrastructure tab used for?
It provides a real-time view of your systems — hosts, containers, cloud instances, etc.
🧪 What is APM?
Application Performance Monitoring tracks request traces, service dependencies, latency, and bottlenecks.
🧠 What is Watchdog?
An AI engine that automatically detects anomalies and outliers in your system metrics and logs.
🗂️ What are Datadog Dashboards?
Customizable boards to visualize metrics, logs, and traces using graphs, widgets, and heatmaps.
📊 What is Log Management?
A feature to ingest, process, search, and analyze logs from distributed systems in real time.
📡 What is Synthetic Monitoring?
Simulates user interactions to monitor site and API uptime, response times, and functionality.
🔐 What is RUM in Datadog?
Real User Monitoring (RUM) tracks end-user behavior, session performance, and frontend errors.
🔧 Can Datadog send alerts?
Yes, via monitors that trigger alerts based on custom thresholds or anomaly detection rules.
🤝 Which tools integrate with Datadog?
Over 600+ tools, including AWS, Azure, GCP, Docker, Kubernetes, Jenkins, and more.