You're reading from Datadog Cloud Monitoring Quick Start Guide Proactively create dashboards, write scripts, manage alerts, and monitor containers using Datadog

Product type Paperback

Published in Jun 2021

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781800568730

Length 318 pages

Edition 1st Edition

Tools

Datadog

Concepts

Application Monitoring

Author (1):

Thomas Kurian Theakanath

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Table of Contents (19) Chapters

Preface

1. Section 1: Getting Started with Datadog

2. Chapter 1: Introduction to Monitoring FREE CHAPTER

3. Chapter 2: Deploying the Datadog Agent

4. Chapter 3: The Datadog Dashboard

5. Chapter 4: Account Management

6. Chapter 5: Metrics, Events, and Tags

7. Chapter 6: Monitoring Infrastructure

8. Chapter 7: Monitors and Alerts

9. Section 2: Extending Datadog

10. Chapter 8: Integrating with Platform Components

11. Chapter 9: Using the Datadog REST API

12. Chapter 10: Working with Monitoring Standards

13. Chapter 11: Integrating with Datadog

14. Section 3: Advanced Monitoring

15. Chapter 12: Monitoring Containers

16. Chapter 13: Managing Logs Using Datadog

17. Chapter 14: Miscellaneous Monitoring Topics

18. Other Books You May Enjoy

Viewing logs using Live Tail

Datadog's Live Tail feature makes the logs available on the logs dashboards as soon as they are available in the backend. It's inspired by the Unix shell command tail, which continuously puts out any additions to a log file that it tracks. The advantage with Live Tail is that updates to a set of similar log files from multiple sources can be tracked on one dashboard.

The Live Tail option is available on the Containers dashboard as in the following screenshot:

Figure 12.7 – The Live Tail option to view logs in real time

Log Explorer also has a Live Tail option available as shown in the following screenshot:

Figure 12.8 – Live Tail on Log Explorer

In this section, you have learned how the Live Tail option can be useful in terms of looking at the logs and reporting on them on a regular basis. In the next section, you will learn how to search a vast number of logs that would be collected...