Application Performance Monitoring Learning Path
Follow this curated path to build a foundation in Datadog Application Performance Monitoring (APM), enabling you to effectively track and optimize performance across distributed systems.
Through hands-on exercises and real-world scenarios, you’ll learn to interpret key metrics, visualize request flows, troubleshoot performance bottlenecks, and manage APM metrics and trace rates and retention.
This path is designed for Software Engineers, DevOps practitioners, Site Reliability Engineers, and anyone responsible for monitoring, troubleshooting, and improving application performance.
You’ll learn how to do the following:
Getting Started with APM Metrics & Traces
Monitor service health and performance with Application Performance Management. Explore traces to understand requests and interactions between services. Track key metrics to understand trends that impact system behavior and user experience.
Diagnosing Application Bugs with Datadog APM
Leverage several features of the Datadog APM product to identify bugs within application code. Using insights gained from APM, fix those bugs and verify your fixes have made a difference in stability and performance.
APM Monitors and Alerting
Learn to create and modify effective APM monitors and alerts so your systems are properly monitored and the correct teams notified when something goes wrong.
Create Custom Spans and Span Tags with APM
Learn how to create custom spans, create tags for those spans, and create measures from tags to surface data and troubleshoot issues with Datadog APM.
APM Rate Limiting and Retention
Control APM trace retention and rate limiting for your applications. Add ingestion and retention filters, create metrics from traces, and monitor trace usage to better manage your APM data.
