May 2025
Intermediate to advanced
270 pages
6h 55m
English
Datadog offers many, many features. The purpose of this chapter is to give you a light introduction to it. However, I promise you will learn enough to monitor your performance really efficiently without having to understand all the functionalities of the platform.
Before learning how to monitor your application, you will need some requests to “seed” your metrics so you actually have something to monitor. I have prepared a Rake task that hits a different application endpoint every second. You can run it by writing the following in your terminal:
| | % rake seed_datadog |
The task runs the following script that you can find in lib/tasks/seed_datadog.rake:
| | require ... |
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