Datadog Introduction

 

Datadog Monitoring Tool:
    Observability is essential for managing modern infrastructure and applications. It brings together real-time metrics from servers, containers, databases, and applications. It achieves this with end-to-end tracing. That’s not all that it can do. It comes up with helpful alerts and fascinating visualizations, offering full-stack observability.

Observability of three metrics [Rate, errors and duration] provide a well rounded view of service performance.

Rate : Monitoring a HTTP and API calls of your services

We will get to know the service over load for monitoring the HTTP and API calls. We will take action if any spikes or sudden drops in the rate of requests. It could indicate issues such as sudden traffic surges, DDos attacks or failures in the upstream.

Errors: Track how many of those request fail.

The error could be server error, database error or failed API calls. We can quickly identify issues with our application or backend system while tracking these errors.

Duration: Measure how long those requests take with latency

High latency will degrade a user experience particularly for real time or interactive applications. Monitoring of duration will allow us to detect a performance bottlenecks before they affect our users.

Below are few of the Datadog monitoring types and we can create and use it.

APM: Monitor application performance monitoring (APM) metrics or trace queries.

Metric: Compare values of a metric with a user-defined threshold.

Logs: Alert when a specified type of log exceeds a user-defined threshold over a given period of time.

Database Monitoring: Monitor query execution and explain plan data gathered by Datadog.

Error Tracking: Monitor issues in your applications gathered by Datadog.

Real User Monitoring: Observe user behavior and monitor frontend performance.

Synthetic Monitoring: Simulate user actions to test API endpoints or website functionality.

Anomaly: Detect anomalous behavior for a metric based on historical data.

Cloud Network Monitoring: Monitor cloud-specific network configurations and traffic.

Infrastructure Monitoring: 

Datadog can monitor the performance and health check of our entire infrastructure. This includes servers, containers, databases, and cloud services. It provides:

• Metrics collection
• Visualizations and dashboards
• Alerting
• Anomaly [behaves differently than usual] monitoring
• Infrastructure maps
• Logs and traces integration
• Automation

Application Performance Monitoring (APM)

Datadog offers APM functionality to monitor and optimize the performance of your applications. It provides detailed visibility into application code, dependencies, and performance bottlenecks. With it, you can track response times, error rates, and throughput. What’s more, you can gain visibility into the performance of individual requests.

Distributed Tracing

Distributed tracing, Datadog allows teams to trace requests as they flow through your complex, distributed systems. It helps you to:

• Identify latency issues
• Understand dependencies between services
• Troubleshoot performance problems across microservices architectures
• You can see how you can easily identify the root causes of application performance issues. It collects data moving between services.

Log Management

Datadog enables centralized log management. This allows you to collect, index, search, and analyses logs from various sources. You can aggregate Datadog logs from multiple systems and applications. You can set up alerts based on log events. Also, you can collect the customized logs from the servers.

Real-time Metrics and Dashboards

 Datadog provides real-time metrics and customizable dashboards. A Datadog dashboard helps to visualize and monitor the health and performance of our systems. You can create visualizations, charts, and graphs to:

• Track key metrics
• Set up alerts based on thresholds
• Share dashboards with your team

Collaboration and Notifications

Datadog offers collaboration features that allows teams to work together effectively. You can annotate and share graphs, dashboards, and alerts. You can even set up notifications via email, SMS, or third-party integrations. Want to integrate incident management tools like Slack, Jira, and PagerDuty? No problem. You can even collaborate on troubleshooting and resolving issues.

Integration and Extensibility

Datadog integrates with a wide range of tools and services. As you can imagine, this makes it easy to collect data from various sources. You can integrate Datadog with all the popular cloud platforms. Don’t stop there, you can integrate it with all your existing workflows.