Glossary of DataDog concepts

Agent

The current package is called datadog-agent and is at version 7.x https://docs.datadoghq.com/agent/#overview

app_key

Needed for READ access

api_key

Needed for WRITE access

APM

Application Performance Monitoring: https://docs.datadoghq.com/tracing/visualization/#pagetitle

Arkade

The package installer for Kubernetes https://blog.heyal.co.uk/introducing-arkade/

Autodiscovery

https://docs.datadoghq.com/agent/faq/template_variables/

Basic

This anomaly detection algorithm uses a simple lagging rolling quantile computation to determine the range of expected values. It uses very little data and adjusts quickly to changing conditions but has no knowledge of seasonal behavior or longer trends. See also https://docs.datadoghq.com/monitors/monitor_types/anomaly/#anomaly-detection-algorithms

Check

Custom agent check: https://docs.datadoghq.com/developers/write_agent_check

Resource

A resource is a particular action for a given service (typically an individual endpoint or query). A helpful mnemonic could be: A service…provides (serves) a resource

Service

Services are the building blocks of modern microservice architectures. Broadly speaking, a service groups together endpoints, queries, or jobs for the purposes of scaling instances

Timeboard

https://docs.datadoghq.com/dashboards/timeboards/#pagetitle