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

Summary

By now, you should be aware of all the important integration options available in Datadog for a variety of use cases; let's recap what we covered in this chapter specifically.

Many Datadog client libraries targeting popular programming languages are available, both officially maintained and at the community level. There are two types of client libraries – ones that provide a language wrapper to the Datadog REST API and libraries that provide support interfacing with Datadog via the StatsD-compatible DogStasD service. Also, there are community-level efforts to integrate with Datadog that are available on GitHub.

There are other types of Datadog client libraries that are not discussed here, such as APM and distributed tracing libraries, libraries that support serverless computing resources such as AWS Lambda, and client libraries that specifically target the log management feature of Datadog. The usage of these libraries is not different from how the core API...