Datadog: Performance monitoring tool (from Zero to Hero)

Analyze performance key metrics using APM services, Traces, Profiling, Dashboard and create Advanced Monitoring system

Created by: Emin Salim
Software Development Engineer

What Will I Learn?

• Understand basic and advanced concepts of APM and Datadog tool usage.
• Datadog Agent installations and configurations. Includes IIS integration
• Datadog APM Service monitoring, Traces observations and Error Tracking. This includes .NET Core API monitoring with the SQL service layer
• Datadog Custom Tags usage from your .NET application.
• Dashboards creation with different widgets like timeseries, query values, toplists, tables, pie charts, service maps and watchdog.
• Alerts/Monitors creation for host and services. Monitors for latency, error and success call rates and sql query duration.
• Understand SLA, SLO, SLI and Error Budget by creating Datadog SLO for success rate (DevOps)
• Monitor application key aspects like availability, reliability, scalability and duration. Also monitor top slowest queries.
• Integrate monitors with Slack and PagerDuty
• Synthetic Monitoring and Performing API and Browser Tests. Using GET/Post methods with request body and Authorization Bearer Token
• Log Management: Basics, Log Entries, Log Exceptions, NLog usage
• How to investigate an issue using Notebook and collaborate it with the team members
• How to setup and monitor NodeJS application with MongoDB in Datadog - with custom metrics and traces
• Latest updates and features

Requirements

• Almost no programming experience needed. Only for 2-3 specific lectures .NET or NodeJS coding skills are needed.

Target audience

• For Developers, DevOps Engineers, SREs, and IT Managers who want to enhance their application performance, reliability, and security.
• For Anyone responsible for ensuring high availability, scalability, and observability in modern applications.