Config
This simple label format, like team:backend or env:prod is how Datadog organizes and filters telemetry across the platform
What are tags
The four pillars Datadog unifies on one observability platform
Infra, Logs, APM, DEM
This compute object is a lightweight runtime unit, such as a Docker or Kubernetes workload.
What is a container?
AWS native tool for observability
Cloudwatch
How do I bring in entries or different lines from something like a flat file on a system to monitor that in Datadog
Logs
OOTB, Datadog provides dashboard for Postgres, Redis, and Nginx using these.
What are integrations
This page is where you can see AWS Lambdas, Azure App Service Plans, and Google Cloud Run Functions
Serverless Page
New Datadog container monitoring billing plan based on this unit of measurement, which lets costs scale with your workload dynamically
What is per vCPU pricing?
Company that provides a hosted version of the grafana/prometheus stack
Grafana Labs
We have some experiemnts we want to run in order to understand how different ways we call our AI application affect the typical metrics like token usage drift + hallucinations in our app.
LLM
The Datadog Agent config is written in this human-readable file format that uses indentation instead of brackets
What is YAML
The Digital Experience feature that lets you watch a user’s session alongside their RUM data and then drill into correlated backend logs and traces
Session Replay
Because container environments are highly elastic, Datadog smooths your bill by using this type of average across your fleet rather than counting every short‑lived container as 1 container for a full month
What is average container per hour or container‑hour usage over time?
Dynatrace's AI tool
Davis AI
We’d like visibility to see what users do, like where i can watch whats going on and see what breaks so my guys dont have to spend all day replicating based off logs
RUM/Session Replay
This type of Datadog key, separate from the API key, is used to scope access when querying Datadog data programmatically
What is an application key
The maximum retention for Datadog Logs Frozen Tier storage
7 years
Datadog resource for kubernetes optimization designed to use estimated CPU and memory cost values to show savings opportunities and impact estimates
What is Kubernetes Autoscaler
The Dynatrace capability that automatically detects and maps all services, processes, and dependencies in an environment without manual configuration
Smartscape
How does alerting happen , specifically for things at the job level for things like batch jobs, ETL workflows, or spark?
DJM
Datadog's Unified Service Tagging standard requires three specific tags on every service. Name two.
what is env, service, version
This RUM concept represents one continuous journey a user takes through your web application, from first page load through their actions and navigations
User Session
This is the name of the separate Datadog component that is deployed as a single Deployment in Kubernetes to reduce API server load and acts as a proxy between node Agents and the Kubernetes API server.
What is the Datadog Cluster Agent?
The name of a protocol acts as a bridge between LLMs and Agents and information sources like Datadog or Confluence
Model Context Protocol (MCP)
The main issue is we want to block the hackers, they should not hack our network, spam our applications, or our prod traffic on our APIs, can datadog help with that?
App + API