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
- 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