Datadog in devops
By : Avantika Thakur
SYMSC-II 5818
Index
• What is DevOps and use of
Datadog in DevOps
• What is Datadog ?
• Uses of Datadog
• What is Datadog monitoring?
• Why monitoring is important?
• Features of Datadog ?
• Datadog tools
• References
• Companies using Datadog
DevOps and Datadog uses in
DevOps:
o DevOps is a software development practice that combines
people, processes, and technology to improve the delivery
of software and services.
o DevOps is a set of practices, tools, and a cultural philosophy
that automate and integrate the processes between
software development and IT teams. It emphasizes team
empowerment, cross-team communication and
collaboration, and technology automation.
Why DataDog used in DevOps:
o Datadog uses in DevOps :
o Monitoring :Datadog can monitor the health and performance of DevOps tools,
including CI/CD systems, configuration management tools, and orchestration
platforms. It can also monitor applications, databases, hosts, and supporting systems.
o Automation :Datadog can automate monitoring checks and integrate with
configuration management and deployment tools.
o Continuous testing :Datadog can automate software testing for a product's entire
lifecycle. It offers code-free and reliable end-to-end automated testing.
o Integration with Azure DevOps :Datadog can be integrated with Azure DevOps to
track pull requests, merges, release and build events, and more.
o DevSecOps : Datadog Security Monitoring can help break down silos between
DevOps and Security teams.
What is Datadog?
o Datadog enables organizations to implement monitoring automation
with features like Autodiscover for automatic configuration of
monitoring checks, as well as monitoring-as-code integrations with
configuration management and deployment tools.
o Datadog is an observability platform that supports every phase of
software development on any stack. The platform consists of many
products that help you build, test, monitor, debug, optimize, and
secure your software. These products can be used individually or
combined into a customized solution.
USES OF DATADOG:
o Performance optimization: Helps identify and fix performance
issues
o Troubleshooting: Provides detailed analytics to help quickly solve
problems
o Security monitoring: Provides insights into security threats and
vulnerabilities
o Compliance monitoring: Ensures systems comply with various
standards and regulations
o Capacity planning: Helps plan how to allocate IT resources
o Real-time business intelligence: Helps teams share data and compute
KPIs.
o Network device monitoring: Helps monitor the health and
performance of network devices
What is monitoring in DataDog?
Datadog Monitors provide vital visibility into your infrastructure, enabling
proactive detection and real-time response to performance issues and
outages. By configuring monitors to track key metrics and thresholds,
organizations can receive immediate alerts and address problems before
they impact customers or cause system downtime.
Monitor critical changes by checking metrics, integration availability, and
network endpoints through the Alerting platform. With Datadog Monitors
you can:
o Simplify monitoring and response processes
o Enhance operational efficiency
o Optimize performance
Why monitoring is important?
o A proactive approach to problem solving.
o Prevention of possible business loss.
o Track trends without hours of data digging.
o Troubleshoot easily with wide range of metrics.
o Identify areas of improvement.
Features of DataDog :
o Alerts: Users can create alerts based on changes to services or
disruptions. Enterprise plan customers can receive automatic alerts
using machine learning.
o Network monitoring: Datadog's network performance monitoring tool
can monitor cloud-based and on-premises networks. It uses a tag-
based approach to network mapping.
o Integrations: Datadog has a library of pre-built integrations to
connect data sources and services.
o Infrastructure maps: Datadog can create infrastructure maps.
o Logs and traces integration: Datadog can integrate logs and traces.
o Automation: Datadog offers automation features.
Datadog tools:
Datadog offers a variety of tools to help with process flow, including:
Workflow Automation
This tool allows users to automate and orchestrate processes across their tech stack. Users can build
workflows that connect to their infrastructure and tools, and perform data and logical operations. Workflows
can be triggered from monitors, security signals, dashboards, or manually.
Request Flow Map
This tool helps users understand the relationships between services in complex, distributed
architectures. Users can filter data by tags and facets to view specific requests in context and track
application issues.
Live Processes
This tool allows users to visualize process trees and summary graphs. Summary graphs can help users
understand how one process affects others across the system.
Distributed Tracing
This tool creates a unique trace ID and an initial span for each request. Each span represents a single unit
of work during the request's execution path. The spans are visualized in a flame graph, which allows
engineers to see how long a request spent in each service or database.
REFERENCES:
o https://www.datadoghq.com/blog/
o https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vXsyTJMsHic
o https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Datadog
Companies using Datadog:
o Apache
o Citrix
o Coursera
o Freebird Inc.
o Mesosphere
o Zendek
Thank you !!!!!
