Config
What is the name of the main Datadog Agent configuration file?
datadog.yaml
This Datadog product lets you visualize metrics, logs, and traces together on a single customizable screen for ongoing observability.
Dashboards
This is the new name for 'Bits AI Assistant' Datadog's natural-language interface to explore systems, investigate alerts, and kick off remediation workflows.
Bits Chat
This competitor markets OneAgent and is often pitched against Datadog in APM and observability deals.
Dynatrace
A prospect from (BIGBEAR) says: 'We want to see stuff that helps us troubleshoot our EC2s.' What Datadog products do you lead with?
Infrastructure Monitoring
The credential tied to your org that the Datadog Agent uses to send data.
API Key
This Digital Experience Monitoring product simulates user traffic to test APIs and user journeys.
Synthetics
Formerly called 'Bits AI Dev,' this Datadog AI coding agent automatically diagnoses and generates fixes for issues in your code.
Bits Code
This is the common open-source component used to collect OTEL telemetry and forward it to observability providers like Datadog.
OpenTelemetry Collector
A prospect from (TANDEMAI) says: 'There is no tool right now monitoring our database.' What Datadog product do you pitch first?
Database Monitoring (DBM)
You can tag all telemetry from a host with this common tag to indicate which environment it belongs to, like prod or staging.
env (environment tag)
The view in Datadog that shows each service's ownership, golden signals, monitors, SLOs, and links to related logs, traces, and DEM data.
Service Catalog
This new Datadog feature lets customers build custom AI agents in natural language to automate remediation workflows, generate reports, or enforce standards across environments.
Bits Agent Builder
The analyst firm that recognized Datadog as a Leader in its APM and Observability Magic Quadrant.
Gartner
A prospect from (CANDOR TECHNOLOGY) says: 'A lot of the analytics in CloudWatch are pretty fragmented we have to look at one log stream then another.' What's the solution?
Log Management
Set this to 'true' in datadog.yaml to enable log collection.
logs_enabled: true
This APM feature automatically installs and configures Datadog tracing libraries for supported runtimes without code changes.
Single Step Instrumentation
This new Datadog log management feature lets you search archived logs in the same query experience as live logs helping displace tools like AWS Athena and Splunk DDSS.
Archive Search
This product is commonly used by Splunk customers to sample, process, and transform logs before ingesting them into their SIEM or observability platform.
Cribl
A prospect from (SOUTH FLORIDA MOTORSPORTS) says: 'The only thing missing is something like historical context being able to demonstrate chain of custody in case there's an incident.' What Datadog product fits?
Audit Trail
Rather than restarting an Agent, this Datadog feature lets you push config changes to Agents and tracers remotely from the UI.
Remote Configuration
This Datadog collaboration feature lets you combine graphs, log queries, trace views, runbooks, and Markdown notes into a shareable investigation.
Notebooks
This new Datadog AI capability provides a continuous system that finds, validates, and ships database query fixes repositioning DBM from a monitoring tool to an active optimization tool.
Database Optimizations
What is the difference between IAST + SAST?
One is runtime/production code, other is static + in a repo
A prospect from (CANDOR TECHNOLOGY) says: 'That's really our biggest pain point Lambda and figuring out what's going on when we're trying to debug and troubleshoot.' What Datadog product addresses serverless observability?