Agent
- How do I collect metrics from Heroku with Datadog?
- Is the agent necessary to use Datadog?
- Log Locations
- What characters are allowed in my hostname?
- What is the Datadog Agent? What resources does it consume?
- Where is the configuration file for the Agent?
APIs Libraries and Community Contributions
- (dog)statsd sample_rate parameter explained
- Aptible: Running the docker-dd-agent
- Calling on Datadog's API with the Webhooks Integration
- Can I backup Dashboards or Monitors?
- Can I call scripts and generate events from their results?
- Can I programmatically maintain or manipulate my Datadog Monitors/Alerts?
APM
Dashboards
Events
- Can I show events 'unaggregated' on the event stream?
- Capistrano events missing from events stream
- Docker, ECS, & Kubernetes Events
- Formatting events submitted via the api or dogstatsd
- How can I alert on events?
- How do I add hostname to event titles and messages submitted by my custom agent checks?
FAQ Billing
- Do non-reporting or inactive hosts count towards my bill?
- Do you support hourly pricing?
- How are my bills calculated each month?
- How can I change the Billing contact?
- How do I see the number of log events I have sent?
- How do I see what I’ll get charged for this current month?
FAQ Communication & Security
- Can I use a proxy to connect my servers to Datadog?
- How do I configure Azure AD as a SAML IdP?
- How do I configure NoPassword as a SAML IdP?
- How do I reset my Application Keys?
- How do I setup Microsoft Active Directory Federation Services as a SAML IdP?
- How is Datadog retrieving my data? Are my data and credentials safe?
FAQ General
- Can I send SMS notifications in Datadog?
- Can I use my own StatsD client? What is DogStatsD?
- Datadog User Permissions and Account Creation
- Help! My Password email never came through!
- How can I access my Datadog support tickets?
- How can I rename my organization?
Integrations
- Additional AWS Metrics - Min/Max/Sum
- Are my AWS CloudWatch metrics delayed?
- AWS Integration and CloudWatch FAQ
- Azure VM status is not reporting
- Azure VMs are showing up in the App but not reporting metrics
- Both my JMX and AWS integrations use "name" tags. What do I do?
Logs
- Can my S3 Log Archives be encrypted at rest?
- How do I monitor the MySQL slow query log?
- How to Send Logs to Datadog via External Log Shippers
- I'm trialing Datadog logs: How do I set my log retention?
- Is it possible to have the agent parse several log files and use wildcards for that?
- Proxy for logs collection with NGINX
Monitors
- Filter By Host in Event Monitor (or Stream)
- How to add @here when sending notifications to Slack or Hipchat
- Monitor and alert best practices
- None group in monitor status view
- Recovery thresholds
- Where can I find my monitor history? How can I see when my monitor was alerting?
Service Providers
- As a parent account admin, how do I create new sub-organizations?
- Can I see monthly usage reports for each of my sub-organizations?
- Can I use an API to provision dashboards and monitors for my sub-organizations?
- Do you support custom domains for each of my sub-organizations?
- How do I add new users to sub-organizations?
- What user roles does Datadog offer for role based access control?
Student Developer
- How can I add my existing free tier account to the student developer program?
- How can students join the Datadog Student Developer Program?
- I am an educator and would like to use Datadog in my curriculum.
- My student developer account has expired, but I am still a student. Can I renew?
- What does a student account include?
- Who is eligible for a student developer account?