DataDog Operations and Monitoring Guide: Definitive Reference for Developers and Engineers

"DataDog Operations and Monitoring Guide"

The "DataDog Operations and Monitoring Guide" is a comprehensive resource designed to empower engineers, architects, and site reliability teams with the advanced knowledge required to master modern observability in distributed environments. Beginning with the essential foundations of observability and DataDog’s architectural underpinnings, the guide explores the vital principles, agent internals, security frameworks, and operational SLAs that are crucial for building reliable and scalable monitoring solutions across hybrid and multi-cloud landscapes. It provides readers with practical strategies for deploying DataDog at scale while upholding privacy, compliance, and high-performance standards.

Delving into advanced data collection and integration patterns, the guide delivers real-world best practices for custom instrumentation, seamless cloud provider integrations, dynamic service discovery, and the secure handling of configurations and secrets. Readers are equipped to monitor complex infrastructures—spanning Kubernetes, containers, edge, legacy systems, and large-scale storage—while optimizing resources and automating remediation. In-depth chapters on application performance monitoring, distributed tracing, synthetic monitoring, log analytics, and visualization offer actionable insights for correlating metrics, traces, and logs, positioning teams to quickly pinpoint root causes and enhance the end-user experience.

Further, the book addresses contemporary challenges in incident response automation, alerting, and continuous improvement through workflows tightly integrated with incident management, ChatOps, and automated playbooks. Security and compliance are spotlighted with dedicated coverage on cloud posture monitoring, policy enforcement, and threat detection. Finally, for organizations seeking to future-proof their observability practice, the guide examines scaling strategies, governance, cost optimization, disaster recovery, and emerging trends such as AI-driven anomaly detection, ensuring that both the technology and the teams behind it are ready for the most demanding operational environments.

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E-raamat: 5. juuni 2025