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

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Agent components

The Datadog Agent is a service that is composed of multiple component processes doing specific tasks. Let's look at those in detail to understand the workings of the Datadog Agent.

On Ubuntu systems, the Datadog Agent service is named datadog-agent. The runtime status of this service can be checked and maintained using the system command service like any other service.

The /etc/datadog-agent directory has all the configuration files related to the Datadog Agent running on that machine. The YAML /etc/datadog-agent/datadog.yaml file is the main configuration file. If any change is made to this file, the Datadog service needs to be restarted for those changes to take effect.

The /etc/datadog-agent/conf.d/ directory contains configuration files related to the integrations that are run on that host. We will see the configuration requirements for integrations and how they are installed in Chapter 9, Integrating with Platform Components, which is dedicated to...