Infrastructure
Infrastructure Monitoring was the ______ product released by Datadog
First
What does APM stand for?
application performance monitoring
What part of the stack does Datadog Log Management monitor?
ACCEPTABLE ANSWERS: the whole stack (frontend, backend and in between), all of the stack, all of it
How many OOTB integrations do we have?
600+
What are the three pillars of observability?
logs, metrics, traces
What part of the stack does infrastructure monitor _____
The backend (which includes hosts and integrations)
What is the visualization of a distributed trace called?
flame graph
Provide an example of a system that generates logs
hosts, operating systems, databases, cloud infrastructure and services, web browser/mobile applications, custom applications in any languages
Name three out of our five Business outcomes
1) Reduce IT Costs, 2)Increase IT uptime, 3)Accelerate Time to Market, 4) Increase Customer Conversion, 5) Reduce Security Risk
What public cloud has the biggest market share?
AWS
One example of an end user persona for Infrastructure is _____
[NAME 1] SRE OR DevOps
What is a "span"?
ACCEPTABLE ANSWERS: one step in a trace, part of a trace, component of a trace
What is log management?
A log management solution gathers all of our data into a single place for investigation, troubleshooting, analysis, and more.
What is a discovery question you can use to discover the platform problem?
1) What/how many tools are you using to monitor and troubleshoot your apps today?, 2) How easy is it to pivot from looking at your infrastructure to your services to user experience and security? 3) How long does it take to onboard a new engineer to understand and troubleshoot your environment?
What are the three components of a computer?
CPU, memory (RAM), storage
Infrastructure metrics are collected every _____ and retained for ______
15sec and 15months
Name two (out of three) metrics that APM tracks
[NAME 2] RED: (request) (error) (duration/latency)
What is the term that Datadog leverages to describe our process of ingesting all logs and indexing only what you need? Hint: it’s a differentiator
logging without limits
Name a feature that make Datadog easy to use.
Acceptable answers: no proprietary query languages, Watchdog (AI) / Machine learning, out of the box dashboards, no context switching (driven by tags)
Name two pain points of buying hardware
[NAME 2] 1) high upfront cost, 2) long time to value, 3) maintenance, 4) high variable costs
Infrastructure Monitoring covers which 3 types of environments? (name 2+)
ACCEPTABLE ANSWERS: on-prem, hybrid, cloud
What are three (out of five) differentiators of Datadog APM?
[NAME 3] 1) End-to-end visibility 2) Deployment tracking, 3) Code-level insights/visibility 4) Unified Platform, 5) AIOps
How does Datadog Log Management help solve challenges faced by the security persona?
Acceptable answers: (1) Real-time threat detection, (2) Discover the source of the incident and immediately begin troubleshooting (3) Retain log data for audit and compliance use cases
What are two (out of the three) advantages of the Datadog platform?
[NAME 2] 1) unified platform, 2) easy to use, 3) future proof
Name one benefit of serverless computing.
[NAME 1]: (1) Engineers can focus only on the logic and UI of their app (2) Quicker time to market (3) Reduce the potential of faulty code deployments