Datadog: Performance Monitoring Tool (From Zero to Hero)
Datadog: Performance Monitoring Tool (From Zero to Hero) is a comprehensive, beginner-friendly course designed to help learners master Datadog as a unified platform for monitoring infrastructure, applications, logs, and performance metrics. Whether you're new to observability or expanding your monitoring expertise, this course provides a practical, hands-on path to becoming fully proficient with Datadog’s powerful features.
Through guided labs, real-world examples, and step-by-step instruction, you’ll learn how to deploy Datadog agents, create custom dashboards, visualize performance data, set up alerting, and integrate Datadog with modern cloud and DevOps environments. By the end of the course, you’ll know how to use Datadog as a complete observability solution that supports high-performance, resilient, and scalable systems.
What You’ll Learn
Core Datadog concepts: metrics, logs, traces, monitors, and dashboards
Installing and configuring Datadog agents across servers and cloud services
Creating dashboards to visualize application and infrastructure performance
Setting up monitors and alerting for proactive issue detection
Working with APM (Application Performance Monitoring) to analyze service behavior
Using Log Management for troubleshooting and root-cause analysis
Integrating Datadog with Kubernetes, AWS, Azure, GCP, CI/CD pipelines, and more
Best practices for observability, performance tuning, and system reliability
Who This Course Is For
DevOps and SRE professionals responsible for system uptime and performance
Cloud engineers using Datadog for observability across distributed systems
Developers seeking insight into application behavior and performance
IT operations teams monitoring infrastructure and services
Anyone new to Datadog wanting a complete, structured learning path
Course Outcomes
By the end of this course, you will be able to:
Deploy and configure Datadog across cloud and on-prem environments
Build dashboards and visualizations for performance insights
Set up monitors, alerts, and detection rules to identify issues early
Use logs, metrics, and traces to analyze and troubleshoot problems
Integrate Datadog with modern DevOps and cloud-native workflows
Operate Datadog as an effective end-to-end observability platform