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Datadog Catalog, part of the Internal Developer Portal (IDP), offers a central source of truth about the software entities your organization operates and maintains—including services, systems, and datastores. When monitoring reveals issues with any particular entity, it is often challenging to quickly find needed information such as contact information for the engineers in charge of supporting it, its upstream and downstream dependencies, or any associated logs, performance telemetry, or security insights. Catalog solves this problem by providing an always-available reference for the most important entity-related information, along with a Relationships view and Service Map that visualize how your entities work together.

This beginner-friendly course teaches you how to navigate the different views of Catalog. It also teaches you how to create entity metadata that allows your teams to easily access supplementary resources such as associated runbooks, documentation, contact information, and code repositories.

By the end of this course, you’ll be able to do the following:

• Explain the features and benefits of Catalog within Datadog’s Internal Developer Portal (IDP).
• Access and navigate Catalog views, including:
  • Ownership
  • Reliability
  • Performance
  • Security
  • Relationships (including the Service Map)
• Describe how entity definitions represent services, systems, and datastores in Catalog.
• Explain how entities and their metadata appear in Catalog.
• Create and update entity metadata by using the following tools:
  • The Datadog UI
  • YAML entity definition files and the Catalog API
  • Terraform
• Use Catalog to access supplementary resources (for example monitors, traces, and dashboards) for a given entity.