Datadog Fundamentals Learning Path
This learning path is being retired May 1, 2025. See below for more details.
Learning Path Courses
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Course Retirement Notice The Datadog Fundamentals learning path is being retired in favor of our new persona-based learning paths. After May 1, 2025 it will no longer be publicly available. For more details see Learning Center Updates - April 2025. For certification preparation materials, see the Certification page. |
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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.
Free
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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.
Free
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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.
Free
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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.
Free
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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.
Free
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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.
Free
