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Questions

Basics

<details> <summary>Describe at least three use cases for using something like Datadog. Can be as specific as you would like</summary> <b>

• Monitor instances/servers downtime
• Detect anomalies and send an alert when it happens
• Service request or response latency

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<details> <summary>What ways are there to collect or send data to Datadog?</summary> <b>

• Datadog agent installed on the device or location which you would like to monitor
• Using Datadog API
• Built-in integrations

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<details> <summary>What is a host in regards to Datadog?</summary> <b>

Any physical or virtual instance that is monitored with Datadog. Few examples:

• Cloud Instance, Virtual Machine
• Bare metal node
• Platform or service specific nodes like Kubernetes node

Basically any device or location that has Datadog agent installed and running on. </b></details>

<details> <summary>What is a Datadog agent?</summary> <b>

A software runs on a Datadog host. Its purpose is to collect data from the host and sent it to Datadog (data like metrics, logs, etc.) </b></details>

<details> <summary>What are Datadog tags?</summary> <b>

Datadog tags are used to mark different information with unique properties. For example, you might want to tag some data with "environment: production" while tagging information from staging or dev environment with "environment: staging". </b></details>

Datadog Agent

<details> <summary>What are the component of a Datadog agent?</summary> <b>

• Collector: its role is to collect data from the host on which it's installed. The default period of time as of today is every 15 seconds.
• Forwarder: responsible for sending the data to Datadog over HTTPS </b></details>

Datadog Integrations

<details> <summary>What can you tell about Datadog integrations?</summary> <b>

• Datadog has many supported integrations with different services, platforms, etc.
• Each integration includes information on how to apply it, how to use it and what configuration options it supports </b></details>

<details> <summary>What opening some of the integrations windows/pages, there is a ection called "Monitors". What can be found there?</summary> <b>

Usually you can find there some anomaly types that Datadog suggests to monitor and track. </b></details>