A comprehensive guide to rolling out Datadog to monitor infrastructure and applications running in both cloud and datacenter environments Key Features * Learn Datadog to proactively monitor your infrastructure and cloud services * Use Datadog as a platform for aggregating monitoring efforts in your organization * Leverage Datadog's alerting service to implement on-call and site reliability engineering (SRE) processes Book Description Datadog is an essential cloud monitoring and analytics tool which enables the monitoring of servers, databases, tools, and services. IT and DevOps teams can easily leverage Datadog to monitor infrastructure and cloud services, and this book will show you how. The book starts by describing basic monitoring concepts and types of monitoring that are rolled out in a large-scale IT production engineering environment. Moving on, the book covers how standard monitoring features are implemented on the Datadog platform and how they can be rolled out in a real-world production environment. As you advance, you'll discover how Datadog is integrated with popular software components that are used to build cloud platforms. The book also provides details on how to use monitoring standards such as Java Management Extensions (JMX) and StatsD to extend the Datadog platform. Finally, you'll get to grips with monitoring fundamentals, learn how monitoring can be rolled out using Datadog proactively, and find out how to extend and customize the Datadog platform. By the end of this Datadog book, you will have gained the skills needed to monitor your cloud infrastructure and the software applications running on it using Datadog. What you will learn * Understand monitoring fundamentals, including metrics, monitors, alerts, and thresholds * Implement core monitoring requirements using Datadog features * Explore Datadog's integration with cloud platforms and tools * Extend Datadog using custom scripting and standards such as JMX and StatsD * Find out how to monitor containers using Datadog * Discover how proactive monitoring can be rolled out using various Datadog features Who This Book Is For This book is for DevOps engineers, site reliability engineers (SREs), IT Production engineers, software developers and architects, cloud engineers, and anyone looking to monitor and visualize their infrastructure and applications with Datadog. Basic working knowledge of cloud and infrastructure is useful. Working experience of Linux distribution and some scripting knowledge is required to fully take advantage of the material provided in the book.

Book Information
ISBN 9781800568730
Author Thomas Kurian Theakanath
Format Paperback
Page Count 257
Imprint Packt Publishing Limited
Publisher Packt Publishing Limited
Weight(grams) 191g