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

Distributing notifications

Let's recap some of the concepts that we have discussed in this chapter to reiterate the related workflows. A monitor triggers a warning or an alert when some threshold or state that the monitor is tracking in the system has been reached. Notifications about this change in status, from OK to Warning or Alert, and then recovering back to OK, can be sent out to different communication platforms such as email, Slack, Jira, and PagerDuty. These notifications can also be posted to any system that supports Webhooks.

We have already learned that just by prefixing a personal or group email address with @, the notifications could be forwarded to them. It's always a best practice to forward these notifications to a group email or a distribution list, as they must be addressed by someone on the team.

The integrations with other tools facilitate the distribution and escalation of alert notifications for systematic tracking and the closure of issues. Let...