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

Listing containers

A microservice is deployed using one or more containers running on different hosts. If a Datadog agent runs on those hosts and it's been configured to detect those containers, Datadog will list them on the Containers dashboard. The Datadog agent configuration changes that are needed for discovering containers running on a host were discussed in Chapter 2, Deploying a Datadog Agent.

To get to the Containers dashboard, you can navigate to Infrastructure | Containers. From there, you will be able to see the dashboard shown in the following screenshot:

Figure 6.18 – Containers dashboard

All the containers the Datadog agent discovers on the hosts are listed on this dashboard. Under the Host section on the left pane, the container hosts are listed. By selecting a specific host from that list, only the containers running on that host can be displayed on the dashboard:

Figure 6.19 – Details of a NGINX container...