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

Setting up monitors

In a generic monitoring system, a monitor is usually tied to metrics or events, and Datadog covers these and much more. There are multiple monitor types based on the data sources defined in Datadog. Some of the most important ones include the following:

Metric: As mentioned at the beginning of this chapter, metrics are the most common type of information used to build monitors. A metric type monitor is based on the user-defined thresholds set for the metric value.
Event: This monitors the system events tracked by Datadog.
Host: This checks whether the Datadog agent on the host reports into the Datadog Software as a Service (SaaS) backend.
Live process: This monitors whether a set of processes at the operating system level are running on one or a group of hosts.
Process check: This monitors whether a process tracked by Datadog is running on one or a group of hosts.
Network: These monitors check on the status of the TCP/HTTP endpoints.