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Datadog Cloud Monitoring Quick Start Guide

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

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Product type Paperback
Published in Jun 2021
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781800568730
Length 318 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Table of Contents (19) Chapters Close

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

Searching logs

To search the logs, navigate to Logs | Search and the search window should look like the sample interface in the following screenshot:

Figure 13.5 – Searching logs

A search query is composed of keywords and operators. In Datadog terminology, a single term is a single keyword, such as error, and a sequence is a group of keywords in quotes, such as "found error". To coin a complex search query, terms and sequences are combined using the following boolean operators:

  • AND: Both terms must be in the selected log entry.
  • OR: One of the terms must be in the selected log entry.
  • - (Exclude): The term follows the character "-" and should be excluded in the selected log entry.

Built-in keywords such as host or source can be used as a search term by using the autocomplete option in the search field. You just need to click in the search field to see all the terms available to use, as shown in the following...

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