Application Performance Monitoring (APM) collects metrics and traces to provide a comprehensive view of how applications behave and perform. This data helps you understand your application by revealing trends, highlighting anomalies, and uncovering issues that may affect service health or user experience.
Getting Started with APM Metrics & Traces focuses on navigating Datadog to locate and interpret APM metrics and traces. You’ll learn to explore Service and Resource Pages, analyze traces and spans in Trace Explorer, interpret flame graphs, identify trends and anomalies with built-in visualizations, and query trace data with tags and facets. By the end of the course, you’ll understand how to use these APM tools to find and interpret your data.
By the end of this course, you'll be able to do the following:
- Navigate Datadog to explore application performance data
- Recognize use cases for APM traces and metrics
- Interpret key metrics such as request volume, error rate, and latency on Service and Resource pages
- Interpret flame graphs to visualize request flows and service interactions
- View and analyze traces in real time using Trace Explorer to track service interactions
- Search, filter, and group traces effectively in Trace Explorer
- Analyze performance trends and anomalies using Datadog’s out-of-the-box graphs
This course is designed for developers who are new to Datadog and are responsible for monitoring application performance as part of their day-to-day responsibilities.
Basic familiarity with the Datadog UI is required. If you are new to Datadog, we recommend completing the following courses before starting this one:
In order to complete the course, you will need:
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.
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.
Introduction
APM Essentials: Metrics
APM Essentials: Traces
Lab: Getting Started with Traces and Metrics in APM
Going Further with Metrics and Traces
Lab: Analyzing Metrics and Traces to Assess Performance Changes
Summary
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