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?
500+
What are the three pillars of observability?
logs, metrics, traces
In the restaurant analogy, an oven is equivalent to a ____
ACCEPTABLE ANSWERS: host, server, computer
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
Name one of the (out of the three) top challenges of modern log management
1) very high volumes, 2) high variations in volume, 3) high variations in value
Name one challenge of creating/monitoring integrations if you didn't have Datadog
1) engineering hours spent on building/scaling integrations, 2) curating and developing monitoring assets, 3) lack of technical expertise
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
Instead of complex query language, we can use simpler text like prod:env. What are those called?
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
Name two types of logs
Anything tech sounding + log will be correct
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 technology that can be used to build microservice based architectures/applications?
ACCEPTABLE ANSWERS: Containers and Serverless