Chapter 4: Account Management
In the last chapter, we looked at the main features of the Datadog user interface. The account management features are also part of the user interface but those warrant a separate discussion as account management is administrative in nature and not all the users of Datadog would be accessing those.
Datadog supports Single Sign-On (SSO) and it provides key-based API support. It also supports multiple organizations within a customer account that can be used to build isolated monitoring environments, sometimes to meet a compliance requirement for separating development and production accounts, or for isolating client accounts hosted by a SaaS provider.
When a user is created, first the privileges for that user can be set by using default roles available out of the box or it can be done finely using custom roles that an administrator can set up. Within a Datadog account, multiple organizations can be created to group or partition the environments that...
