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

Dashboards

A Datadog dashboard is a visual tool that can be used to track and analyze metrics. It offers a rich set of features that can be used to build custom dashboards, in addition to the dashboards available out of the box.

The Dashboards main menu option has two options, Dashboard List and New Dashboard:

Figure 3.8 – The Dashboards main menu options

The Dashboard List menu will list all the dashboards grouped by various categories.

Two types of custom dashboards can be created in Datadog, Timeboards and Screenboards:

Figure 3.9 – Datadog dashboard types

The graphs in a Timeboard dashboard will share the same time frame, so it will be useful for comparing multiple metrics side by side. This feature makes a Timeboard dashboard useful for triaging issues. The Screenboard dashboard doesn't have a time constraint, and disparate objects can be assembled on it. In that sense, a Screenboard type dashboard is more...