Learning Center Updates - April 2025
A learning path is a recommended grouping of courses based on a persona, product, or related set of skills.
As of Monday March 31st, the Learning Center has a new learning path model. Fourteen new learning paths will launch, featuring new and updated courses. Existing learning paths will also be replaced and updated.
If you have completed a course that appears in multiple learning paths, you will be credited with completion of that course in each of those learning paths. You may find that you've already made progress on multiple paths!
Continue reading for more details.
Learning paths being retired
- Datadog Fundamentals (replaced with Core Skills and/or Configuration and the persona path of your choice)
- APM Fundamentals (renamed to Application Performance Monitoring)
- Log Management Fundamentals (removed, replaced with two new learning paths!)
- Kubernetes Fundamentals (renamed to Kubernetes Monitoring)
New! - Universal learning paths
These two new paths cover foundational concepts and skills relevant to multiple personas and Datadog products.
New! - Persona learning paths
These six new learning paths cover skills that are relevant to specific personas using Datadog.
- Backend Engineer
- Frontend Engineer
- Site Reliability Engineer
- Application Security Engineer
- Cloud Security Engineer
- Cloud Security Engineer - Cloud SIEM
Product learning paths
These learning paths include courses on specific Datadog product areas and tasks.
- Dashboards (New!)
- Application Performance Monitoring (formerly APM Fundamentals)
- Kubernetes Monitoring (formerly Kubernetes Fundamentals)
- Log Querying & Analytics (some courses were formerly part of Log Fundamentals)
- Log Configuration & Processing (some courses were formerly part of Log Fundamentals)
- Attacks & Threat Detection (New! Coming in April)
New! - Certification preparation learning paths
These three new paths cover topics from each certification exam.
Note: Completing a learning path does not guarantee a passing score on the certification exam.
Courses that will be retired
The following courses will be retired and replaced with new content in learning paths.
- Datadog Foundation (replaced with the Core Skills and Configuration learning paths)
- Datadog 101: Developer (replaced with the Backend Engineer or Frontend Engineer learning paths)
- Datadog 101: Site Reliability Engineer (replaced with the Site Reliability Engineer learning path)
Note: These courses will be publicly available until May 1, 2025. After this date, they will be hidden from the catalog, but accessible via direct link or existing user enrollment until June 30, 2025.
Email us at [email protected] or visit the #learning-center Slack channel with any questions.