Searching container data

So far, our focus has been to collect information from containers and the infrastructure they run on, and publish that to the Datadog backend. Various Datadog dashboards, especially Live Containers and Log Explorer, presented that information for user consumption. In a real-life environment where Datadog would be publishing copious amounts of monitoring information, it could easily become a little overwhelming to process such a huge volume of data. The solution is to use methods of searching for information using keywords and tags, and you will learn how to do that in this section.

Keywords can be used to search for containers on the Live Containers dashboard and they will match with container names, IDs, and image names. For example, in the following screenshot, the container ID is looked up:

Figure 12.9 – Searching for a container using the container ID

The result can be further filtered and/or grouped by using tags. The...