Words to Listen For?
What Datadog product would you recommend if the following is mentioned: Troubleshooting performance issues across hosts takes a while because we have to jump from host to host to see our cpu usage, memory on each box, and then look at logs at the same time frame, which live in various places for different applications. We don't have one place to view everything
What is Infrastructure Monitoring
The fastest way to start collecting data from individual hosts and containers using Datadog
What is the Datadog Agent?
These quantitative measurements tell you what is happening in your systems — like CPU utilization, request rates, or latency.
What Are Metrics?
Where is Datadog’s headquarters?
New York City
What does MTTR stand for?
Mean Time to Repair/Resolution
"We want to understand when our application has issues due to our database, and then be able to drill into why that query caused the slowdown? Was it related to memory? to CPU? or other metrics like that."
What is DBM
The Datadog Region that is best suited for an Azure hosted infrastructure
What is US3?
This visualization allows you to see a full trace and the length of spans
What is a flame graph
In what year did Datadog go public?
2019
Which cloud-native monitoring tool competes with Datadog for AWS-only customers?
CloudWatch
"Our app uses a microservice architecture, so it doesn't wait for one service to finish, and its not a clean waterfall-like flow, if one service has issues, the whole app is not affected, but then understanding where app performance is inconsistent, tends to be a problem"
What is APM
The Datadog platform feature helps visualize ownership, health, cost and security for services.
What is Software Catalog
Which shared view shows ownership and golden signals for each service?
What is Service Catalog
Name the piece of infrastructure that Datadog's name was initially derived from
Server
Which observability vendor limits full platform access to licensed users, often restricting visibility across teams?
New Relic
What's the first question you should ask when you hear "On-Prem"?
What do you mean when you say On-Prem? (Clarify!)
(Could be server, networking, or a managed architecture)
The file that Datadog Support team commonly requests from someone with a ticket to send them using the Datadog Agent
What is a flare?
Logs must enter this to be analyzed by Cloud SIEM
Cloud SIEM Index
The first non-US city to have a Datadog office
Paris, France
Datadog has no complex query language but our competitors do. What is the name of New Relics Query Language
The New Relic Query Language (NRQL)
What PRODUCTS should you recommend when you hear the following: "We suspect we’re over-provisioning cloud resources but don’t have the insights to identify idle or underutilized hosts".
What is Infrastructure Monitoring & Cloud Cost Management?
The tool that lets you manage Datadog dashboards, monitors, and settings as code at scale.
What is Terraform?
What is the term for the delay that Datadog helps customers monitor that occurs the first time an AWS Lambda function is invoked or after it’s been idle
What is a cold start
What program lets partners deliver apps and integrations inside Datadog?
Datadog Marketplace
Which company recently was a buzz with a potential acquisition from Datadog
Gitlab