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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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Thomas Kurian Theakanath Thomas Kurian Theakanath
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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

Inventorying the hosts

There are two interfaces available in Datadog that provide a list of hosts: Host Map and Infrastructure List. Each host listed on these interfaces will have a Datadog agent running on it. The host could be a bare-metal machine or a virtual machine (VM) that has been provisioned in a public cloud service such as AWS or Azure.

Let's look at the Host Map feature first. To access that interface, navigate to Infrastructure | Host Map on Datadog's dashboard. You will see a dashboard similar to the following:

Figure 6.1 – Sample host map

Each hexagonal shape on the dashboard represents a host in the infrastructure monitored by Datadog. The CPU utilization (in percent) of a host is color coded, with less usage represented by green and higher usage represented by orange. The legend at the bottom-right corner of the dashboard provides details about the color coding being used. The gear button provided with the legend can be...

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