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

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Chapter 9: Using the Datadog REST API

In the previous chapter, you learned how platform components, mainly made up of third-party software products and cloud services, are integrated with Datadog, by way of Datadog-supported integrations and custom checks. The main objective of those integrations is to monitor third-party tools used in the application stacks from Datadog. The integration with Datadog can be done in the other direction also. Tools and scripts can use Datadog HTTP REST APIs to access the Datadog platform programmatically. For example, if you need to post a metric value or an event to Datadog from an application, that can be done using the related REST APIs.

The Datadog REST API set is a comprehensive programmatic interface to access the Datadog monitoring platform. The APIs can be used to post custom metrics, create monitors and dashboards, tag various resources, manage logs, and create and manage users and roles. Essentially, anything that you can perform from the...