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

Using client libraries

In this section, we will look at two different client libraries – the first group consists of libraries that are wrappers for the Datadog REST API, and the second group of libraries are native DogStatsD client libraries. Both these groups of libraries are available for popular programming languages such as C++, Java, Python, Java, and Go.

Datadog provides both categories of libraries for most programming languages. While a lot of community libraries are listed on the official Datadog website, we will only look at those that are actively maintained.

REST API-based client libraries

The basic Datadog client library is the REST API set, and the programming language-specific libraries are essentially wrappers on top of the REST APIs that facilitate the usage of APIs. In this section, we will look at some of the important client libraries specific to programming languages, and wherever relevant, we will look at sample code also.