Datadog Fundamentals Certification Learning Path

Introduction to Observability

What is observability? This question needs to be answered before you start using the Datadog platform. In this introductory course, we’ll cover the three pillars of observability and prepare you to move on to our Core Skills learning path.

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Datadog Quick Start

Explore data and insights in Dashboards, Logs, Catalog, Monitors, and Notebooks for a live application environment. Use Bits (AI) Chat to run an investigation. Become confident navigating the Datadog features you'll use every day.

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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.

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The Agent on a Host

Introduction to running the Datadog Agent on a host. Hands-on activities walk you through running and configuring the Agent to collect events, metrics, and logs from other services.

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The Agent on Docker

Introduction to running the Datadog Agent in a container. Hands-on activities walk you through running and configuring the Agent container to collect metrics and logs from other services.

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Getting Started with Integrations

Learn how Datadog’s 800+ integrations collect and report data from an expansive list of outside tools, platforms, programming languages, and more.

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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.

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Getting Started with Infrastructure and Cloud Network Monitoring

Learn how to analyze metrics, visualize network and infrastructure performance, and troubleshoot issues effectively in this introduction to using Datadog’s Infrastructure and Cloud Network Monitoring (CNM).

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Getting Started with Monitors

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.

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Customize Alert Monitor Notifications

Craft dynamic and descriptive notification messages for alert monitors using conditional, tag, and template variables. In the hands-on lab, you’ll gain practical experience by drafting and testing notification messages.

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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.

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Creating Custom Metrics with DogStatsD

Use DogStatsD to create custom metrics for your applications that track business outcomes, internal information, and more. Set up, send, and view these metrics in Datadog.

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Create an Agent Integration

This course guides you through the development process for a sample Datadog integration, presenting the associated tooling along with the coding and configuration steps, all with a view to helping you start building your own integrations.

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Datadog API: Automation and Infrastructure as Code

In this course, you'll take a hands-on tour of the Datadog API and its capabilities. You'll also learn a variety of ways to communicate with the Datadog API, with an emphasis on automated methods.

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Monitoring a Kubernetes Cluster: Install the Agent

To monitor your Kubernetes cluster with Datadog, you must install the Datadog Agent. This course will walk you through the most common ways of installing Cluster and Node Agents on Kubernetes: the Helm chart and The Datadog Operator.

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Introduction to Monitoring AWS

This course will walk you through a series of hands-on exercises, including installing the integration and installing sub-integrations for specific services, such as AWS Lambda and Amazon RDS.

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