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

Evaluating community projects

There are tools developed by other companies and community groups that make your life easier with Datadog-related integration and automation. In this section, we will look at some of the useful tools and frameworks available in that category.

dog-watcher by Brightcove

In a large-scale environment with several dashboards and monitors built on Datadog for operational use, maintaining them could quickly become a major chore. This Node.js utility can be used to take backup of Datadog dashboards and monitors in JSON format and save it into a Git repository. Such backups are also very useful in recreating similar resources in the same account or elsewhere.

The utility needs to be run as a Node.js service. The code and the details of configuring it to run are available on GitHub at https://github.com/brightcove/dog-watcher. It could be scheduled to take periodic backups or take backups as and when there would be changes to the Datadog resources being...