Datadog is a software as a service (SaaS) observability platform that is designed to:

• Collect the vast amount of monitoring data - including metrics, traces and logs - that systems produce.
• Put all data in one place
• Organize and present the data in an intuitive format that helps you/team detect, diagnose, and resolve issues more efficiently.

Overview of Topics

Universal Service Monitoring (USM)

Datadog Log Management

• Enables to cost-efficiently collect, process, archive, explore, and monitor all the logs.

Metrics

• can track a wide range of measurements—such as latencies, error rates, or even user signups—within your environment over time.

Monitors

Integrations

• plugins or add-ons that enable Datadog to monitor individual third-party software, services, or tools.
• With the help of integrations, Datadog can unify different metrics and logs generated by many technologies deployed across your infrastructure.

Dashboards

• allow you to view curated visualizations of key observability data on a single page. You can create custom dashboards from scratch, but there are also many out-of-the-box (OOTB) or pre-built dashboards available