This is the code repository for Datadog Cloud Monitoring Quick Start Guide, published by Packt.

Datadog Cloud Monitoring Quick Start Guide, Published by Packt

Datadog is an essential cloud monitoring and operational analytics tool which enables the monitoring of servers, virtual machines, containers, databases, third-party tools, and application services. IT and DevOps teams can easily leverage Datadog to monitor infrastructure and cloud services, and this book will show you how.

This book covers the following exciting features:

• 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
• Discover how proactive monitoring can be rolled out using various Datadog features Understand how Datadog can be used to monitor microservices in both Docker and Kubernetes environments Get to grips with advanced Datadog features such as APM and Security Monitoring

If you feel this book is for you, get your copy today!

All of the code is organized into folders. For example, Chapter02.

The code will look like the following:

init_config:
instances:
  - url: "unix://var/run/docker.sock"
  new_tag_names: true

Following is what you need for this book: This book is for DevOps engineers, site reliability engineers (SREs), IT Production engineers, software developers and architects, cloud engineers, system administrators, 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.

With the following software and hardware list you can run all code files present in the book (Chapter 1-14).

We also provide a PDF file that has color images of the screenshots/diagrams used in this book. Click here to download it.

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Thomas Kurian Theakanath Thomas has over 20 years of experience in software development and IT production engineering, and currently focussed on Cloud Engineering and DevOps. He has architected, developed, and rolled out automation tools and processes at multiple companies in Silicon Valley. He graduated from Calicut University in India majoring in Production Engineering and he did his masters in Industrial Management from the Indian Institute of Technology, Mumbai. He worked at big corporations like Yahoo! and SAP Ariba and helped multiple startups to get started with their DevOps practice. He led and mentored engineering teams to successful completion of large DevOps and monitoring projects. He contributes regularly to tech blogs on the latest trends and best practices in his areas of expertise. Originally from Kochi, India, Thomas now lives in the San Francisco Bay Area with his wife and three children. An avid outdoor enthusiast he spends his free time running and hiking the trails and hills of the Bay Area with his friends and family and volunteering for his favourite charities.