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

Developing integrations

In Chapter 8, Integrating with Platforms Components, you learned how to configure an integration. Datadog ships official integrations with a lot of third-party applications that are used to build the cloud platform where a software application runs. The best thing about using an official integration is that the metrics specific to that integration will be available for use in dashboards, monitors, and other Datadog resources after minimal configuration.

Datadog lets you build custom integrations that would work exactly like the official ones. It would require DevOps expertise, especially coding skills in Python, and it's not easy to learn the procedure Datadog lays out to build an integration that would be compatible with the Datadog Agent. However, it might make sense to build an integration for the following reasons: