Datadog 101: Developer

Learning Objectives

⚠️	Course Retirement Notice This course is being replaced with our Backend and Frontend Engineer learning paths. It will no longer be publicly available after May 1, 2025. For more details see Learning Center Updates - April 2025.

Upon completing this course, you will be able to:

Determine how Application Performance Monitoring (APM) is configured and used to help identify performance issues across services with distributed trace data.
Explain how synthetic testing can be used to quickly catch a regression in the user experience.
Configure and analyze data captured from Real User Monitoring (RUM) to get a fuller picture on user interactions with your application.

Primary Audience

This course is designed for anyone who wants to learn the basics of Datadog from the perspective of an application developer.

Prerequisites

The prerequisites for this course are the following:

Completion of the Learning Environment course
Completion of the Datadog Foundation
Familiarity with the infrastructure and systems that power web applications
Able to use a Linux command line shell
Basic programming skills in any language
Familiarity with editing code in an IDE

Technical Requirements

In order to complete the course, you will need:

Google Chrome or Firefox
Third-party cookies must be enabled to access labs

Course Navigation

At the bottom of each lesson, click MARK LESSON COMPLETE AND CONTINUE button so that you are marked complete for each lesson and can receive the certificate at the end of the course.

Course Enrollment Period

Please note that your enrollment in this course ends after 30 days. You can re-enroll at any time and pick up where you left off.

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