July 2017
Beginner to intermediate
358 pages
10h 54m
English
For Software as a Service (SaaS), I recommend looking at Datadog. To send metrics to Datadog, you have two options: one is to communicate with the API directly; the other is to run the Datadog collector as a container inside your cluster. The Datadog collector allows you to use StatsD as your data format, and it supports a couple of nice extensions that standard StatsD does not, such as the ability to add additional tags or metadata to your metrics. Tagging allows you to categorize your data by user-defined tags, and this, in turn, allows you to keep your metric names specific to what they are monitoring without having to add environmental information.
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