APM
General
- What is the Difference Between "Type", "Service", "Resource", and "Name"?
- Are there any plans to provide tracing for mobile applications?
- What happens if I update my drivers or other code libraries for an integration?
- Can I choose which hosts I will enable APM on?
- Are there possibilities of customizing the traces we collect? Is there also automatic data collection possibilities without any long setup?
Agent
Installation
Troubleshooting
General
- How can I collect HTTP response codes from Nginx?
- Datadog security in Docker production environments
- What characters are allowed in my hostname?
- Will the Agent run a check if a previous run is still running?
- What is the Datadog Agent? What resources does it consume?
- Is the agent necessary to use Datadog?
Monitors
General
- Filter By Host in Event Monitor (or Stream)
- Recovery thresholds
- How to add @here when sending notifications to Slack or Hipchat
- Where can I find my monitor history? How can I see when my monitor was alerting?
- Monitor and alert best practices
- Is it possible to alert on breached threshold by percentage of utilization? For example, alert when 50% of memory has been used or 80% of disk space is used?
Dashboards
Frequently Asked Questions
Graphing
Integrations
Troubleshooting
- JMX SSL Troubleshooting
- Error: Datadog is not authorized to peform sts:AssumeRole
- Issues with Apache Integration
- Apache SSL certificate issues
- Why isn't Elasticsearch sending all my metrics?
- Troubleshooting JMX Integrations
General
- How to create new tickets in Freshservice using Webhooks
- Using your own MIB with Datadog agent v5.14.x onwards
- How to add event log files to the `Win32_NTLogEvent` WMI class
- Can I use a named instance in the SQL Server integration?
- What standard integrations emit custom metrics?
- Why events don't appear to be showing up in the event stream with my github integration ?
Amazon Web Services
- ★ Revoking AWS keys and enabling Role Delegation for the Datadog AWS Integration
- How can I monitor the health/status of my RDS instances?
- Using Datadog's AWS Billing Integration to monitor your CloudWatch usage
- AWS Integration and CloudWatch FAQ
- Why am I only seeing the average values of my custom AWS/Cloudwatch metrics?
- Where are my ELB latency metrics?
Service Providers
Frequently Asked Questions
- 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 options do I have to share dashboards?
Events
General
- Docker, ECS, & Kubernetes Events
- How do I add hostname to event titles and messages submitted by my custom agent checks?
- Capistrano events missing from events stream
- How do I acknowledge an event?
- Formatting events submitted via the api or dogstatsd
- How do I do advanced event search in Datadog?
Frequently Asked Questions
Communication and Security
- How to configure Auth0 as SAML IdP
- How do I configure Azure AD as a SAML IdP?
- How do I reset my Application Keys?
- Why are users being added as "none none"?
- How do I configure NoPassword as a SAML IdP?
- How do I configure Okta as a SAML IdP?
General
- How can I access my Datadog support tickets ?
- What user roles does Datadog offer?
- Where can I visualize my service check in the Datadog UI?
- How to remove the `host` tag when submitting metrics via dogstatsD
- Why histogram stats are all the same/ inaccurate? Characteristics of Datadog histograms.
- Help! My Password email never came through!
Billing
- How will an Azure integration impact my monthly billing?
- How do you compute Log Management overages and how does it impact my bill ?
- How do I see the number of log events I have sent?
- How does the usage details page help me understand my monthly usage?
- Where do I find an overview of your pricing?
- How will an AWS Integration impact my monthly billing? Can I setup exclusions using tags?
APIs, Libraries and Community Contributions
API
- Use our Webhook Integration to create a trello card
- Using Postman With Datadog APIs
- Calling on Datadog's API with the Webhooks Integration
- List of ec2 instances without the datadog-agent installed
- Dogshell: Quickly Use Datadog’s API from Terminal/Shell
- Manage organizations programmatically
Community - Custom Projects by our community
- Aptible: Running the docker-dd-agent
- OmniOS (and possibly SmartOS/OpenIndiana/Nexenta): install from source by tweaking the agent install script
- Is it possible to integrate with ThousandEyes?
- Deploying the Agent on RaspberryPI
- How to Monitor Logs with Loggly Live Tail and Datadog
- Can I programmatically maintain or manipulate my Datadog Monitors/Alerts?
General
- Submitting Metrics via PowerShell
- How to track the freshness of a metric
- (dog)statsd sample_rate parameter explained
- How to post AppDynamics events to Datadog
- Send metrics and events using dogstatsd and the shell
- I'm receiving a 202 but not seeing data
Student Developer Program
Student Developer Program
- How can students join the Datadog Student Developer Program?
- What does a student account include?
- Who is eligible for a student developer account?
- I’m loving Datadog and would like to use this at work! Who can I talk to?
- Why does my account show an additional user?
- How can I add my existing free tier account to the student developer program?
Log Management
Processing your logs in Datadog
General
Sending Logs to Datadog
- Proxy log collection with HAProxy
- I'm trialling Datadog logs: How do I set my log retention?
- Proxy for logs collection with NGINX
- Setting file permissions for rotating logs (linux)
- Log Collection: Is the Datadog Agent losing logs?
- Instance Initialization Error while sending logs from Datadog Agent
Moved Content
Agent
- Agent Check reports "OK" but Monitor shows Critical
- Agent Hostname Flow Chart
- Agent(s) are no longer reporting data
- Configuring Mesosphere DC/OS with Datadog
- Custom JMX Integration(s)
- How can I change the hostname?
APM
- How is the captured data sent to the APM agent for sampling/aggregation? Is it statsd?
- How is the namespace for the trace metrics defined?
- How to configure an Apdex for your traces with Datadog APM ?
- How to create a Monitor over every Resource (APM)
- I want to instrument a language you don’t yet support, how does the API work?
- If I instrument a database with Datadog APM, will there be sensitive database data sent to Datadog?
Dashboards
- Auditing Dashboards
- Correlate metrics and events using dashboard template variables
- Dashboard loads very slowly/displays no data, but I'm correctly sending data to Datadog
- False spikes sometimes appear on my `sum:` graph
- Function Example - Visualize the differences using top() by mean / max / min / area / l2norm
- How can I determine the plotting granularity of the charts for the different time windows?
Integrations
- Collecting Composite type JMX attributes
- Connection Issues with the SQL Server Integration
- Hadoop Distributed File System (HDFS) Integration Error
- How to run JMX commands in Windows?
- I Have a Matching Bean for my JMX integration but nothing on Collect !
- jmx.yaml error: Include Section
Monitors
- Anomaly Monitors via the API
- Auditing Monitors
- Built a network monitor on an http check.
- Can I alert on processes availability?
- Can I create monitor dependencies?
- Can I set up a monitor for a metric that hasn't been reported to Datadog yet?