Events

Most monitoring tools only focus on collecting and reporting time-series metrics data. In comparison, Datadog reports on events too, and that is one of its attractive features. These are system-level events such as the restarting of a Datadog agent and the deployment of a new container:

Figure 3.5 – An example events dashboard

The Events dashboard can be accessed using the Events main menu option on the Datadog UI. You can directly add an update to the events stream using this dashboard and also comment on an already posted event. This social media-inspired feature is useful in situations where you need to communicate or add clarity about some system maintenance-generated events to remote teams.

The events listed on the dashboard can be filtered using various options, including search. Additionally, there is an option to aggregate related events, which is useful in adding brevity to the events listing.

Events is one of the main menu options...