Basic Monitoring
What is the primary purpose of monitoring tools like Datadog?
To ensure the health and performance of applications and infrastructure.
What is the purpose of a dashboard in Datadog?
To provide a visual and customizable overview of key metrics and data in real-time.
What is an alert in Datadog?
A notification triggered when a monitored metric crosses a defined threshold.
Name one Datadog integration that supports log monitoring.
AWS CloudWach, Elasticsearch, etc...
Software Engineer struggling with debugging the latency in their application
APM
Which three key metrics are commonly monitored in Infrastructure Hosts?
CPU usage, memory utilization, and latency.
Name one type of widget you can add to a Datadog dashboard.
Time series graph
Name one channel through which Datadog can send alerts.
Email, Slack, Teams, PagerDuty, etc.
True or False: Customers won't be billed for hosts that come in via Integration only (e.g. EC2 instance with no Agent)
False
A Database Admin needs better visibility into query performance
DBM
True or False: Datadog can monitor both cloud-native and on-premise environments.
True
Environment variables
What does a "alert fatigue" mean, and why is it a problem?
It refers to excessive alerts, which can lead to people not taking alerts seriously, ignoring them and missing critical issues.
How does the integration with Jira help incident management?
Bi-Directional tracking and resolution of incidents via Jira tickets
A Security engineer is currently tracking all of their compliance framework requirements in excel and is becoming time consuming
CSM
What is a key difference between infrastructure monitoring and application monitoring?
Infrastructure monitoring focuses on hardware and system resources, while application monitoring focuses on the performance of code and user experiences.
What is the benefit of using tags in Datadog dashboards?
Allows you to segment and filter into data using only 1 dashboard
What is an "Anomaly Detection" alert in Datadog?
An alert triggered by deviations from normal behavior patterns.
What unique feature does the Datadog integration with GitHub provide during CI/CD pipelines?
Real-time visibility into test results and deployment metrics directly in pull requests.
A SRE wants to minimize downtime and automate responses to incidents, by continuously pinging their websites to make sure they are up. Which combination of tools?
Synthetics and Incident Management
Define "distributed tracing" in the context of monitoring.
A method to track requests as they move through DIFFERENT services in a distributed system
Explain how you can use dashboards to track SLA adherence.
By creating widgets that measure uptime and performance metrics against SLA targets.
True or False: There is a difference between the way Datadog detects anomalies in Watchdog vs in Anomaly Monitors
True
What is the purpose of the ServiceNow integration with Datadog?
To streamline IT operations by automating incident creation and management.
A Platform Engineer notices periodic drops in message queue throughput. Which Datadog feature could help diagnose the issue?
Service Maps with APM and Infrastructure Metric