Abstract

Datadog Notebooks provide a collaborative platform for incident investigation and technical documentation. This course teaches you how to create notebooks, add multiple types of data, use notebook templates, and share your findings with your team.

You'll work through a realistic scenario investigating failures in an e-commerce checkout process. You'll learn to correlate logs with infrastructure metrics and SLO performance, identify root causes, document your investigation using notebook templates, and use Bits Chat to enhance and generate notebooks.

Learning Objectives

By the end of this course, you will be able to:

  • Create notebooks and configure notebook settings
  • Analyze log, metric, and SLO data to investigate performance issues
  • Create investigation comments and summaries
  • Use Bits Chat to summarize, extend, and generate notebooks
  • Configure sharing permissions and export options for team collaboration

Primary Audience

This course is designed for:

  • DevOps engineers and SREs investigating incidents and documenting troubleshooting workflows
  • Operations analysts creating data-driven reports and monitoring service health
  • Security analysts building investigation workflows and documenting incident response
  • Anyone who needs to analyze system issues and share findings with team members

Prerequisites

To complete this course, you need:

  • Basic familiarity with Datadog navigation and concepts
  • No prior experience with Notebooks required

Recommended courses:

Datadog Quick Start

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.

Course curriculum

    1. Notebooks Overview

    1. Lab: Create Your First Notebook

    1. Summary

    2. Feedback Survey

Getting Started with Notebooks

  • 1 hours to complete
  • Beginner
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