Summary

Account and user management is an administrative task and regular users will not get into it except for tasks such as creating application keys. The multi-organizations feature can be used to partition the account into logical units, and we looked at sample scenarios where they are useful. Datadog supports industry-standard SSO options using SAML and we learned how to implement those. There are multiple methods available for programmatic access and the primary mechanism is using a key pair, and we went over the steps for generating them. Fine-grained access to Datadog for a user can be implemented using custom user roles and we learned the steps to configure those for a user.

This is the last chapter in the first part of the book, which provided an overview of monitoring in general and an introduction to Datadog and getting started with it in particular. In the subsequent parts and chapters of the book, we will discuss how monitoring features are implemented and used in...