Datadog: Performance monitoring tool (from Zero to Hero)

Description

Datadog Performance Monitoring Mastery Course

Datadog Performance Monitoring Mastery is a comprehensive, step‑by‑step course designed to take you from zero knowledge to full proficiency in using Datadog for real‑world performance monitoring and observability.

Introduction

If you’re ready to master performance monitoring with cutting‑edge tools, this course gives you everything you need to start using Datadog effectively in production environments. Whether you’re a developer, DevOps engineer, systems administrator, or simply someone who wants to ensure reliability and performance for applications and infrastructure — this course is for you.

What You Will Learn

• Fundamentals of performance monitoring — understanding what metrics, traces, logs and dashboards are, and why they matter.
• Installing and configuring Datadog agents for servers, containers, and cloud environments (AWS, Azure, GCP).
• Collecting and visualizing key metrics (CPU, memory, disk I/O, network traffic) for hosts and containers.
• Instrumenting application performance monitoring (APM) for backend services — capturing traces, spans, and errors.
• Centralized log collection and analysis: shipping logs, parsing, filtering, alerting.
• Creating custom dashboards, time‑series graphs, heatmaps and service maps to monitor real‑time performance.
• Setting up alerts and monitors — threshold alerts, anomaly detection, composite alerts, multi‑channel notification (email, Slack, webhook).
• Performance troubleshooting: identifying bottlenecks, memory leaks, latency spikes, and resource contention.
• Best practices for tagging, tagging strategies, environment separation (prod, staging), collaboration across teams.
• Scaling and maintenance: efficient agent deployment, resource overhead considerations, cost‑effective monitoring strategy.

Course Structure & Modules

1. Module 1 – Foundations of Observability: Why monitoring matters, definitions of metrics/traces/logs, intro to Datadog’s ecosystem.
2. Module 2 – Installing Datadog Agents: Step‑by‑step setup for Linux, Windows, Docker, Kubernetes, cloud VMs.
3. Module 3 – Metrics Collection & Dashboarding: Host metrics, container metrics, custom metrics, building dashboards.
4. Module 4 – Application Performance Monitoring (APM): Instrumenting code, tracing requests, error profiling, distributed tracing.
5. Module 5 – Log Management & Analysis: Shipping logs, parsing logs, building log-based alerts, integrating with other data sources.
6. Module 6 – Alerts, Monitors & Anomaly Detection: Setting up monitors, alerts for thresholds, anomalies, downtime detection.
7. Module 7 – Real‑World Troubleshooting Scenarios: Debugging latency, memory leaks, high CPU usage, container resource contention.
8. Module 8 – Scaling Monitoring for Teams & Infrastructure: Tagging strategy, cost optimization, multi‑environment support, collaboration tips.
9. Bonus Module – Best Practices & Compliance Monitoring: Long‑term data retention, compliance logs, privacy-aware monitoring, audit ready dashboards.

Who Should Take This Course?

This course is ideal for:

• Developers who want to understand how their applications perform in real‑world production environments.
• DevOps engineers or system administrators tasked with maintaining uptime, performance, and reliability.
• Team leads or SREs looking for a comprehensive observability setup for microservices or distributed systems.
• Anyone responsible for monitoring cloud infrastructure, containers, or hybrid environments.

Prerequisites

No prior experience with monitoring tools is required. A basic understanding of servers, cloud infrastructure, and general application architecture will help — but everything else will be explained from the ground up.

Benefits of Completing This Course

• Gain confidence in proactively detecting and resolving performance issues before they impact users.
• Be able to instrument applications end-to-end — from infrastructure metrics to application traces and logs.
• Design efficient, cost-effective monitoring strategies that scale with your infrastructure.
• Improve collaboration across development, operations, and QA teams by using shared dashboards and alerts.
• Prepare real-world monitoring setups useful for any enterprise, cloud, or hybrid infrastructure.

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Ready to Get Started?

If you want full mastery over infrastructure and application monitoring — this course will equip you with skills that are in high demand across modern tech teams. Whether you manage one server or hundreds of microservices, you’ll know exactly how to keep performance smooth, predictable, and reliable. Enroll now and transform the way you monitor systems for good.

Explore These Valuable Resources:

• Datadog Official Website
• Datadog Documentation & Guides
• Datadog Blog — Best Practices & Tutorials