What you'll learn

Modern IT teams must balance performance, user experience, and security, all while reducing operational risk. In this course, Datadog Strategic Insights, you’ll learn how to use Datadog strategically to gain insights from an end-user’s perspective across your applications and cloud infrastructure. You’ll start by configuring synthetic monitoring to proactively test critical user journeys and backend APIs from global locations. Next, you’ll analyze real-world user behavior with real user monitoring (RUM), using key experience metrics to identify bottlenecks and correlate frontend issues with backend traces and logs. Finally, you’ll explore cloud security posture management (CSPM) to continuously detect misconfigurations, monitor compliance against industry standards, and strengthen your cloud security posture. By the end of this course, you’ll be equipped to move beyond reactive troubleshooting and implement a proactive, business-aligned observability and security strategy.