Datadog Sessions

Datadog helps you monitor and analyze the performance of your services.

This section provides questions you can ask to get insights into how your system is running and where you can improve.

Key areas of focus

Below are some key questions to ask about your Datadog setup to better monitor your environment:

General monitoring

• What are the most recent alerts in my environment?
• Are there any services with high error rates or response times?
• Which hosts are using the most CPU or memory?
• What are the top metrics showing anomalies in the past 24 hours?

Logs

• What are the most frequent errors appearing in my application logs?
• Can I get a breakdown of the log sources generating the most data?
• Which logs indicate possible security issues or threats?

Tracing

• Which traces have the longest duration across my services?
• Are there any bottlenecks in my request traces?

Dashboards & visualizations

• Can I get an overview of my key performance metrics?
• What are the most critical widgets on my Datadog dashboard?

Alerts & notifications

• What are the most common alerts triggering in my environment?
• Are there any alerts that have been ignored or unresolved?