Datadog Fundamentals 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 Datadog Foundation training.

Enroll for free

Datadog Foundation

This course offers an entrypoint to the Datadog platform by introducing many of its basic products and concepts, including integrations, Universal Service Monitoring, Service Catalog, logs, metrics, monitors, service level objectives, and dashboards.

Enroll for free

Datadog 101: Developer

Learn the Datadog features and capabilities that are most fundamental to the application developer role, such as working with integrations, configuring your services for APM, synthetic API and browser testing, and RUM.

Enroll for free

Datadog 101: Site Reliability Engineer

Datadog’s core suite of tools gives SREs the ability to view their entire infrastructure at a glance as well as zoom in on individual components such as processes. This course teaches you how to use these capabilities effectively.

Enroll for free

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.

Enroll for free

Getting Started with Log Explorer

Query logs from all of your log sources. Investigate log details. Build visualizations with Fields Aggregations. Create Saved Views. Add facets and measures.

Enroll for free

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.

Enroll for free

Learning Center