Words to Listen For
This tool gives us a single pane of glass where we can customize widgets, filter by tags like environment, and drill from a high-level view straight into host-level CPU, memory, and processes.
Infra / Dashboard (Megadata call)
Lightweight, stand-alone package that contains everything needed to run a piece of software
Container
A Datadog lightweight piece of software installed on hosts, VMs, and containers to collect metrics
What is the Datadog Agent
This is the name of the Datadog CEO (must pronounce correctly)
Who is Oliver Pomel
The name of this confluence hub put together by Reggie Allen
What is the Competitive Center //DD Competitive Analysis Center
(https://datadoghq.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/TSS/pages/4935091584/Datadog+Competitive+Center)
We need something that can auto-discover SQL instances, show query duration, throughput, explain plans, and even tell us when an index is missing
DBM (Megadata call)
These are the machines, physical or virtual, where containers actually run, like servers, laptops, computers, or VMs.
Host
The Datadog process of adding context and structured data (like service names or trace IDs) to raw log lines
What is Datadog Pipelines(Parsing and Observability Pipelines is acceptable)
This is the name of the dog in Datadog's logo
Who is Bits
Name 2 of 4 "Tier 1" Competitors
Dynatrace, Grafana, New Relic, Cisco/Splunk
We want to filter by facets, group similar logs into patterns, and even correlate logs directly to traces
Logs (threads uniform)
Sealed Box with your app inside, build it once run it anywhere
Container
This Datadog capability allows you to ingest all your logs for real-time analysis but only index and store a subset of the most critical ones for better cost control.
What is Logging without Limits
This 3P product comes up when someone says Lambda, Azure App Service Plan, Docker?
What is infrastructure monitoring
Name the open source competitor that is typically used for On Prem Monitoring (Network devices, employee laptops, office endpoints)
Who is Zabbix
We’d like visibility to see what users do, track load times, and capture UI frustrations.
RUM (ScioAps)
The most common orchestration platform for containers?
Kubernetes
This Datadog Infrastructure billing plan includes the added benefit live process monitoring and Watchdog
What is Enterprise Plan?
Which Datadog product can be displayed on a TVs so they can watch system health in real time
What are dashboards
The open source tool sits on top of Prometheus for data visualization?
What is Grafana
We want anomaly detection that automatically tells us when something is behaving strangely without defining every threshold ourselves
Watchdog (Megadata call)
These are called ____ Hosts in Datadog pricing terms: any physical or virtual OS instance it monitors, including servers, VMs, Kubernetes nodes, App Service Plan instances, and Heroku dynos.
Billable host
This APM feature identifies the most resource-consuming lines or functions in your application code in real-time, helping optimize performance
What is Continuous Profiler?
This is the name of the e-commerce Datadog-created site hooked up to our demo environment
What is Shopist/Couch Cache
This Datadog security competitor provides Endpoint Detection and Response (EDR) and is known for their security presence
Who is CloudStrike