Table of Contents
Preface
Section 1: Getting Started with Datadog
Chapter 1: Introduction to Monitoring
Technical requirements
Why monitoring?
Proactive monitoring
Implementing a comprehensive monitoring solution
Setting up alerts to warn of impending issues
Having a feedback loop
Monitoring use cases
All in a data center
Application in a data center with cloud monitoring
All in the cloud
Monitoring terminology and processes
Host
Agent
Metrics
Up/down status
Check
Threshold
Monitor
Alert
Alert recipient
Severity level
Notification
Downtime
Event
Incident
On call
Runbook
Types of monitoring
Infrastructure monitoring
Platform monitoring
Application monitoring
Business monitoring
Last-mile monitoring
Log aggregation
Meta-monitoring
Noncore ...
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