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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Using Live Containers

Live Containers is a Datadog feature that provides insights into the workings of live containers. As you know, Kubernetes has become an industry standard for orchestrating containers, and that is not limited to Docker. Docker is only one of the tools available to package and run microservices. Though Docker is still the dominant containerization platform, there are tools like CoreOS rkt that could be used with Kubernetes, and this trend has gained momentum.

Kubernetes is a complex platform and so monitoring the Kubernetes platform itself, besides the containers it runs, is also equally important. Though native applications such as Kubernetes Dashboard are the tools of choice for monitoring a Kubernetes cluster manually, Datadog's platform monitoring features help to consolidate monitoring on one platform and to automate it.

When a Kubernetes cluster is fully configured for the Datadog Agent to publish both cluster-level and application-level information...