Introduction to OTel with Datadog

Abstract

Datadog can collect and visualize data from OTel instrumented systems, enabling seamless monitoring and analysis. This course provides a hands-on experience to help you integrate OTel with Datadog. You'll learn how to configure OTel to export metrics, traces, and logs to Datadog, and explore the collected data within the platform. This will empower you to gain insights and make informed decisions based on observability data.

Learning Objectives

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

Explain the benefits of integrating instrumented OTel systems with Datadog
Export OTel instrumented system data into Datadog
Inspect OTel exported metrics, traces, and logs in Datadog

Primary Audience

This course is designed for developers and SREs working on OTel configured applications who are familiar with monitoring basics such as metrics, logs, and traces.

Prerequisites

Before taking this course you should know:

The benefits and capabilities of OTel
Basics of configuring an OTel Collector (receivers, processors, exporters, connectors)
Fundamental concepts of monitoring such as traces, metrics, and logs
It will be also helpful to know basic concepts about Datadog, such as The Agent on a Host

Technical Requirements

An internet-connected computer with Google Chrome or Mozilla Firefox installed.

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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