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Datadog
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2 Hours
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This Datadog learning path is designed to maximize your observability ROI. It equips your technical teams with the expertise to unify metrics, accelerate root cause analysis, and proactively ensure system reliability. The result is minimized downtime, optimized cloud spend, and improved cross-functional collaboration across your organization.
**Datadog** - Datadog Agent, Metrics, and Dashboards (video course) - Datadog Full-Stack Observability (video course) - Datadog Proactive Reliability (video course) - Datadog Strategic Insights (video course)
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Datadog
The Datadog learning path is designed to equips your technical teams with the expertise to unify metrics, accelerate root cause analysis, and proactively ensure system reliability.
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What You'll Learn
- Install and configure the Datadog Agent and its integrations.
- Create and customize dashboards for real-time data visualization.
- Implement a consistent tagging strategy to organize and correlate data.
- Collect and analyze logs to expedite troubleshooting.
- Perform distributed tracing with Datadog APM to understand application performance.
- Correlate metrics, logs, and traces to rapidly identify and resolve root causes.
- Design and configure intelligent monitors and alerts that minimize alert fatigue.
- Define and track Service Level Objectives (SLOs) to align technical work with business goals.
- Proactively monitor user experience using Synthetic Monitoring and Real User Monitoring (RUM).
- Apply cloud security principles to identify and mitigate misconfigurations.
Prerequisites
- A learner needs the basic understanding of computer fundamentals is essential. Knowledge of networking basics. Familiarity with the Linux operating system and command-line interfaces is required, as the Datadog Agent is frequently installed and configured in Linux environments. A basic understanding of data serialization formats such as YAML or JSON is helpful, as well as basic knowledge of cloud concepts.
Related topics
- Infrastructure as Code (IaC)
- Datadog
- Container Orchestration
- Advanced Cloud Platforms
- SRE
- DevOps
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