Monitoring Via Datadog
By :-
SAHIL SAWHNEY
Software Consultant
KNOLDUS SOFTWARE LLP
By :-
SAHIL SAWHNEY
Software Consultant
KNOLDUS SOFTWARE LLP

Agenda
● What is DataDog?
● Why monitoring is important?
● What Are Metrics?
● Features Of DataDog?
● Demonstration
● What we would be monitoring
● Flow of process
● References

What Is DataDog?
● Datadog is a cloud monitoring solution that
brings metrics from all of your apps, tools,
servers & services into one place.
● It brings servers, clouds, metrics, apps and
team together by seamlessly aggregating
metrics and events across the full devops
stack.

Why Monitoring Is Important?
● A proactive approach to problem solving.
● Prevention of possible business loss.
● Track trends without hours of data digging.
● Troubleshoot easily with wide range of metrics.
● Identify areas of improvement.

What Are Metrics?
● Metrics are numbers that tell you important
information about a process under question.
● They tell accurate measurements about how the
process is functioning and provide base for
Identifying improvements.
● Example → free -m is used to get RAM related
metrics.

Features Of DD
● See across systems, apps, and services
● Get full visibility into modern applications(Akka
Integration by lightbend)
● Build real-time interactive dashboards
● Share what you saw, write what you did
● Get alerted on critical issues

DD Integration Options
● Ansible
● AWS
● Microsoft Azure
● Slack
● Bitbucket
● Cassandra
● Apache Kafka
And Many Many More.......

Companies Using DD
● Apache
● Citrix
● Coursera
● Freebird Inc.
● Mesosphere
● Zendek
● Many more....

Reference Links
● https://www.datadoghq.com/blog/
● https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vXsyTJMsHlc
● https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Datadog