Config
Every time you make a change to a dashboard in the UI, this is what you do with the Datadog agent
Nothing
DEM stands for what
Digital Experience Monitoring
This compute model runs code in short‑lived functions such as AWS Lambda, where the cloud provider manages servers and scaling for you.
What is serverless computing?
Open standard for telemetry adopted across vendors
OpenTelemetry
“Looking to get an understanding of the health of their services across the board that are written in Go”
APM
Datadog’s Agent can collect metrics, logs, traces and this fourth type of telemetry using Infrastructure Enterprise
What are processes
The Datadog view that lets you search and aggregate logs, then pivot directly into related metrics and traces for deeper context
Log Explorer
The way Datadog bills for AWS Lambda functions, how they count the number of functions for the ephemeral workload
the average number of functions per hour across the month
Splunk's primary use case
Logs / SIEM
“I want to be able to see that the deployment has been triggered, currently, I need to go go to AWS + keep refreshing, seeing when the old tasks are being depleted & the new tasks are coming up online because, it degrades right from the GitHub action stage itself.
CICD
When a customer runs Datadog in a Docker or Kubernetes environment, they typically pass Agent config information through these instead of a YAML file
What are environment variables
The RUM pricing and architecture model that lets you decouple session ingestion from indexing
RUM w/o Limits
The additional piece of data needed to know to determine if we can install the Datadog agent on a host when we know their compute (EC2, VM, On-premise host)
What is the Operating System
Often referred to as ___ ___ these four metrics were popularized by Google's SRE handbook for monitoring an user-facing system
Gold Signals/Golden Metrics
The second thing is, I want to be alerted right? how the hell do you get the message off to people? say like, can it, make a text or phone call ?
On Call
Datadog can monitor cloud accounts like AWS without installing an Agent by using this type of integration
What is a cloud/API based integration (crawler)
Datadog RUM tracks these Google-defined metrics out of the box to measure the load speed, interactivity, and visual stability of your frontend applications (e.g. Largest Contentful Paint, Interaction to Next Paint, and Cumulative Layout Shift)
Core Web Vitals
Datadog serverless monitoring surfaces high‑granularity metrics such as cold starts and estimated cost, which is not collected with AWS CloudWatch.
What is Lambda Enhanced Metrics
Query language used by New Relic
NRQL
We have on logs that live on prem, and are looking to essentially route them for compliance, would you have something for that?
SIEM
This Datadog capability allows operators to define which logs are kept or dropped before they every leave the Agent, helping manage cost
What is log filtering/processing at the Agent level (log pipelines (op) and exclusion filters)
This Datadog feature automatically finds which integrations to run for Kubernetes workloads based on pod labels/annotations or container labels
Autodiscovery
The recommended Datadog logging approach for collecting logs from AWS ECS on Fargate using the Datadog Agent
Fluent Bit and FireLens
What security vendor is known for their security graph which shows end-to-end attack path analysis
Wiz
We are looking to monitor TLS/SSL Certificates to make sure we can be alerted before they expire
Synthetics