Three Pillar
Lambdas, Azure App Services, + Google Cloud Run Functions, are all examples of what kind of infrastructure
Serverless
This is the name of Datadog's dog mascot!
Bits
This competitor focuses on observability of frontend architectures, competing with our RUM/Session Replay products - and previously employed Chris Zannotti
FullStory
This configuration file in Datadog's Agent allows you to define which integrations and checks should be enabled
What is the `datadog.yaml` file?
What counts a billable APM Host?
A billable APM host is a host that is actively generating traces that are submitted to the Datadog SaaS application, including, but not limited to, an OpenTelemetry Collector.
What are the two main ways we can obfuscate (mask) or prevent data from being seen in the platform?
1.Agent level (yaml)
2. SDS (in platform)
Datadog's headquarters is in this City.
NYC
These competitors are often referenced when customers are calculating "build-vs-buy" with respect to observability
Grafana + Prometheus; ELK stack
To forward logs from your application to Datadog, you need to configure this Agent feature to collect and ship logs.
What is the Datadog Log Collector?
How is RUM priced?
A session is a user journey on your web application. It expires after either 15 minutes of inactivity, or 4 hours of continuous activity
Golden Signal Metrics are at the core of observability, what are the Golden Signal Metrics?
1. Errors
2. Throughput (request count)
3. Latency
4. Saturation (% of Time Spent by Downstream Service)
Datadog's APM Product became Generally Available on this year.
2017
This competitor was involved in a recent acquisition, allowing the end result to compete more fully with Datadog; previously, this competitor was only able to compete in the spaces of Logs and SIEM
Splunk
This process involves adding language-specific libraries to your application's code to enable detailed APM features
What is instrumenting your application?
This Datadog product analyzes the performance of your entire code base, in any environment, all the time and with negligible overhead. Quickly identify and optimize the slowest
What is Continuous Profiler
What is the current version of the Datadog Agent?
7
What AWS availability zone was Datadog's platform originally started in?
US-East-1
This competitor has been scrutinized for their recent acquisition by a PE firm
New Relic
You use this type of Datadog Agent configuration to monitor Docker containers and Kubernetes pods.
What is the `conf.d` directory with specific integration configuration files?
What is a custom event?
Datadog allows you to send custom events coming from your own custom applications such as custom-built deployment tools or scheduled maintenance jobs. This way, you can correlate any of these events with performance metrics, create monitors for alerting and enrich events at intake with processing pipelines to be queried alongside other standard events.
What happens if an agent is on a host is and it loses connection to the internet?
The agent will "buffer" where it will store data until re-connected back to the internet. (15MB)
This is an industry-standard technology that allows DevOps engineers to adopt observability with a unified standard, reducing vendor lock-in
OpenTelemetry
This configuration process in Datadog involves defining patterns and rules to automatically parse and structure incoming log data.
What is setting up log pipelines?
How does Datadog price for Fargate tasks across infrastructure?
Service at five-minute intervals. Datadog aggregates the interval-based measurements at the end of the month and charges you based on the total number of hours your applications were run and monitored.