Words to Listen For
"We’re a small team running on-prem Linux web servers, a MySQL database for both the public website and internal apps, and mail logs that have previously hidden issues. We want Host health and resource visibility”.
What is Infrastructure monitoring
This term refers to Datadog content that works immediately without custom setup.
OOTB (out of the box)
This cloud service category does not have underlying infrastructure
What is Serverless
Name the CTO of Datadog
Alexis Lê-Quôc
Does Datadog offer support for Grafana <> Datadog Dashboard migration?
NOOOOOO
“We have five showrooms spread across the country, and our biggest need is to consistently ping and monitor the external interfaces of those locations. We want something dependable that won’t require complicated scripts or allowlisted IPs from multiple continents.”
What is Network Device Monitoring
This Datadog view displays all services and their dependencies using circles and connection lines.
Service Map
Name 2 of the 3 main benefits of serverless
What is Low maintenance
What is cost effective/cheap
What is easier to use
What level of authorization does Datadog have for the Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program
FedRAMP® High ‘In Process’
Which major cloud provider offers EC2, Lambda, ECS, and RDS as part of its core service lineup?
AWS
“We are a MySQL-heavy team, there have been times when we forgot to add indexes to a new table, and months later users start saying ‘this is running slow.’ It would be a huge win if something could flag missing indexes and suggest fixes before it becomes a problem.”
What is DBM
These standard three tags lets you connect data across metrics, logs, and traces
Unified Service Tagging (UST)
This cloud Provider offers Web Apps as a build option
What is Azure
What Datadog datacenter should US based customers pick if their org is primarily in GCP
US5
App Service Plans and Web Apps are an example of this cloud providers serverless offerings
Azure
Our IP was blocked by Proofpoint, our mail logs were full of bounces, but no one noticed until customers started complaining. We’d like something that can spot unusual spikes in error logs automatically and tell us where to look?
What is Watchdog
Datadog recently added this infrastructure monitoring capability for a critical hardware component used in AI development.
GPU Monitoring
What does ECS stand for?
What is Elastic Container Service
What are the three main ways users can interact with Datadog Support
Email (tickets), Live chat, Zoom (calls)
This authentication method lets users access multiple applications with one login and is supported by Datadog through providers like Okta, Azure AD, and Google. (although has to be flagged on during trials with a zendesk ticket)
SSO w/ SAML
“Our team relies on Customer Support to manually check projects and guess who’s using which features. I wish we had a simple way to see which features are high-use vs underused across the whole user base.”
What is Product Analytics / RUM
This Datadog capability provides a unified, searchable inventory of all infrastructure resources.
Resource Catalog
Fargate's configuration file are referred to as these
What is a Task Definition
What year was Datadog's LLM Observability released in General Availability
2024 (June)
This industry movement urges teams to address testing, security, and quality earlier in the development lifecycle rather than waiting until production.
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