Core Skills Learning Path
This is a great learning path to begin your journey in the Datadog Learning Center!
In this hands-on series of courses, you’ll learn to visualize and interpret key metrics in dashboards, develop effective monitors, and unify your data across logs, metrics, and traces—ensuring you can quickly pinpoint issues and streamline your alerting strategy.
This path is designed for you to establish core Datadog skills, whether you’re entirely new to the platform or looking to refine your existing approach.
You’ll learn how to do the following:
Datadog Quick Start
Explore data and insights in Dashboards, Logs, Software Catalog, and Monitors for a live application environment. Become confident finding your way around Datadog features you'll use everyday.
Tagging Best Practices
Develop an effective tagging strategy to improve data organization and visibility across your systems. Filter, group, and explore correlated data with tags in Datadog for deeper insights into performance, resource usage, and application behavior.
Getting Started with Metrics
Explore metric types, origins, and their role in monitoring. Practice querying, aggregating, and visualizing metrics to effectively track systems over time, establish baselines, identify patterns, and more.
Getting Started with Monitors
NEW! Create, configure, and use Datadog Monitors to stay ahead of issues. Explore various monitor types and examine the monitor status page to detect issues early and keep systems running smoothly.
Introduction to Dashboards
In this course, you’ll learn how to create Datadog dashboards that display the status and performance of a web application. You’ll track the site's performance and error rate and present this data in a way that is easy to understand.
