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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Reviewing supported integrations

It has been already mentioned that Datadog provides integrations for a lot of third-party platform components. Some of them, such as Apache, NGINX, Docker, MySQL, and the like, are more important than the rest because of their ubiquitous use across a variety of software applications. In this section, we will look at the important integrations and call out points of any importance.

Datadog provides three different options for integrating platform components:

Agent-based: In the example we saw earlier in this chapter, the Datadog Agent configuration had to be updated to enable the integration. That is required because the platform component, NGINX in the example, runs on a host. It could be run as a microservice also and yet an agent is needed to monitor that environment. Essentially, the integration in that case is managed by the local agent. The Datadog Agent is shipped with official integrations and they are readily available as we saw in...