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Welcome to the Datadog
Learning Center!

Datadog provides cloud-scale monitoring and security for metrics, traces, and logs in one unified platform. The Datadog Learning Center provides an interactive platform for learning about Datadog products and features, for users of all experience levels.

Popular Courses

  • The Learning Environment

    This course, a prerequisite for all Learning Center courses and workshops, sets you up in the learning environment and helps you get comfortable with its various controls and screens.

  • Datadog 101: Site Reliability Engineer

    Datadog’s core suite of tools gives SREs the ability to view their entire infrastructure at a glance as well as zoom in on individual components such as processes. This course teaches you how to use these capabilities effectively.

  • Datadog 101: Developer

    Learn the Datadog features and capabilities that are most fundamental to the application developer role, such as working with integrations, configuring your services for APM and log collection, synthetic API and browser testing, and RUM.

  • Introduction to Application Performance Monitoring

    In the course, you instrument an app for Datadog APM and then explore many APM features, including Traces Search, Live Search, Trace View, Services List, Service Page, Resource Page, and Service Map.

  • Introduction to Monitoring

    This course covers monitoring fundamentals by introducing the three pillars of observability—metrics, traces, and logs—and explaining how they can work together to provide an effective picture of system performance.

  • Building Better Dashboards

    This course is designed to help you move beyond out-of-the-box dashboards in Datadog. With custom dashboards, you can expose and interpret new layers of information to help reveal key insights.

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Learning Paths

  • Datadog Fundamentals Learning Path

    6 Courses

    Complete the courses in this learning path to build a foundation of basic knowledge about the Datadog platform and its core offerings. Upon completion, you will receive a Credly badge for Datadog Fundamentals I.

  • Kubernetes Fundamentals Learning Path

    3 Courses

    Complete the courses in this learning path to build a foundation of basic knowledge about monitoring in a Kubernetes environment with Datadog. Upon completion, you will receive a Credly badge for Kubernetes Fundamentals.

  • Log Management Fundamentals Learning Path

    3 Courses

    Complete the courses in this learning path to build a foundation of basic knowledge about Datadog Log Management. Upon completion, you will receive a Credly badge for Log Management.

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