Config
This is the name of the main Datadog Agent configuration file.
What is datadog.yaml
This feature lets you visualize metrics, logs, and traces together on a single, customizable screen for ongoing observability
Dashboards
This Datadog billing unit represents a physical or virtual machine, or cloud instance that sends metrics, logs, or traces.
What is a host?
Competitor that markets OneAgent
Dynatrace
This product gives us a single pane of glass where we can filter by tags like environment, and drill from a high-level view straight into host-level CPU, memory, and processes.
Infra
The credential tied to your org that the Datadog agent uses to send data
This DEM product simulates user traffic to test APIs and user journeys
Synthetics
The Datadog product that infrastructure monitoring is a prerequisite for.
What is APM?
The common component used to gather OTEL data and forward it to Observability providers such as Datadog
OpenTelemetry Collector
I've seen a couple outages since I started working with these guys. First of all, you shouldn't see one outage every two, three years period. I've seen two, three of them in less than 12 months. Like that's. Not good in my mind. And usually, it's because some small microservice fails, but it doesn't call like a kill on the other processes, but I have no way of seeing that today
APM
You can tag all telemetry from a host with this common tag to indicate which environment it belongs to, like prod or staging
What is the env tag
The view that shows each service’s ownership, golden signals, monitors, SLOs, and links out to related logs, traces, and DEM data
Software Catalog, Service Catalog, Service Page
The allotted amount of custom metrics per host
What is 100 custom metrics for every host with InfraPro, or 200 custom metrics for every host with Infra Enterprise?
The analyst firm that named Datadog a Leader in its APM and Observability Magic Quadrant
Gartner
just trying to find a way to have some control on the saas applications that we have, because if we cannot have access to the servers or we don't have a good way to monitor them with pings, a good way would be to use _____.
Synthetic Tests
This boolean pattern in datadog.yaml must be set to true to enable log collection
This APM feature automatically installs and configures Datadog tracing libraries for supported runtimes
SSI
What part of the platform leverages Datadog cloud integrations and the Datadog Agent to display data from cloud resources such as hosts, databases, and storage services to understand key information such as metadata, ownership, configurations, relationship between assets, and active security risks.
What is Resource Catalog?
The competitor/product that is used to sample, process, and transform logs prior to ingestion into platforms like Splunk
Cribl
As were in the healthcare space and we have clients in europe, how do we remain compliant in the logs or traces we are sending to Datadog
Sensitive Data Scanner
Rather than restarting an Agent, this Datadog feature lets you push config changes to Agents and tracers remotely from the UI
This collaboration feature lets you combine graphs, log queries, trace views, runbooks, and Markdown notes into a shareable investigation
Notebooks
The allotted custom events per host
What is 500 custom events for every host monitored with InfraPro, or 1000 for Enterprise
CLI based generative code tool developed by anthropic that is changing the way software developers create software
Claude Code
AE: What is top of mind when it coems to alerts? Do you guys have a dashboard that's able to see everything?
Prospect: We do it's really cool. But like I said, it doesn't wake you up at night with a phone call. It doesn't do any crazy or important stuff like that, It just looks good when you need to look into something.
On-Call