Monitoring and Observability with Datadog

Learn how to maximize monitoring using Datadog and build services and infrastructure that are observable—a key criteria for building reliable systems.

Introduction

• Datadog and observability
• What you need to know

1. Introduction to Observability

• What is observability?
• What is Datadog?

2. Infrastructure Monitoring

• What is infrastructure monitoring?
• Understanding Datadog infrastructure metrics

3. Application Performance Monitoring

• What is APM?
• Understanding Datadog APM metrics and error tracking
• Defining SLIs, SLOs, and error budgets with Datadog
• Customizing APM metrics and traces on Datadog

4. Logging without Limits

• Enabling Datadog logs
• Analyzing logs with Datadog
• Defining a robust logging pipeline on Datadog
• Creating custom metrics with logs
• Correlating logs and APM metrics on Datadog

5. Utilizing Datadog Metrics

• Building Datadog dashboards
• Setting up Datadog monitors
• Datadog Synthetics tests
• Datadog incidents

Conclusion

• Leveraging Datadog integrations
• Anomaly detection with Datadog
• Next steps