Chapter 3: The Datadog Dashboard
In the previous chapter, we looked at the various ways the Datadog agents running on your infrastructure upload monitoring metrics to Datadog's SaaS backend. The Datadog dashboard provides an excellent view of that data, and it can be accessed using popular web browsers. The administrators use the dashboard to perform a variety of tasks – managing user accounts and their privileges, creating operational dashboards, enabling integrations, and creating monitors are typical examples. The dashboard provides a chat window for the users to contact customer support as well.
While the dashboard has a large number of features, some of them are more important than others, and we will study them in detail in this chapter. These are the important dashboard features:
- Infrastructure List
- Events
- Metrics Explorer
- Dashboards
- Integrations
- Monitors
- Advanced features
