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

Advanced agent configuration

The main Datadog agent configuration file, datadog.yaml, can be updated to meet your specific monitoring requirements. By default, only api_key is set in it. A datadog.yaml file used in a real-life environment would have more options set.

We will see some of the important configuration items that are usually leveraged to fine-tune the monitoring infrastructure:

proxy: If the outbound traffic to the internet has to go through a proxy, this option needs to be configured. Typical proxy settings for http, https, and no_proxy are supported.
hostname: If a specific hostname has to be used for reporting, it is set using this option. By default, the hostname is auto-detected using tools available at the operating system level.
tags: A very important option that is always used to tag the metrics reported by the agent. Multiple key/value pairs can be specified.
collect_ec2_tags: By enabling this option, the AWS EC2 node tags can be collected...