APM
General
- My trace-agent.log renders "empty `Service`" error
- What is the Difference Between "Type", "Service", "Resource", and "Name"?
- I want to instrument a language you don’t yet support, how does the API work?
- Are there any plans to provide tracing for mobile applications?
- How is the namespace for the trace metrics defined?
- If I instrument a database with Datadog APM, will there be sensitive database data sent to Datadog?
Agent
Installation
- How to export your infrastructure list and Agent versions
- Common Windows Agent Installation Error 1721
- How do I install the agent on a server with limited internet connectivity?
- How to monitor SNMP devices?
- How do I monitor a Windows Service?
- How do I monitor Windows Processes?
Troubleshooting
- How to solve Permission denied errors?
- How to report host disk metrics when dd-agent runs in a docker container?
- Agent Check reports "OK" but Monitor shows Critical
- Starting Datadog Agent (using supervisord):Error: Cannot open an HTTP server: socket.error reported errno.EACCES (13)
- Error Restarting Agent: Already Listening on a Configured Port
- Requirements for the IIS integration
General
- Custom log parsing: Can I send extra parameters to my custom parsing function?
- Does the docker dd-agent have JMX in it?
- Configuring Mesosphere DC/OS with Datadog
- How to get more out of your Kubernetes integration
- Why don't I see the 'system.processes.open_file_descriptors' metric?
- How do I monitor system load for Windows
Monitors
General
- How can I setup an alert for when a specific tag stops reporting?
- How do I reduce alert flapping / noise?
- Where can I find my monitor history? How can I see when my monitor was alerting?
- Built a network monitor on an http check.
- I have a downtime scheduled on my monitor--why did it still alert?!
- What happens to a monitor when it is muted (or has a downtime)?
Dashboards
Frequently Asked Questions
- Why am I unable to iFrame certain https:// URLs?
- Why isn't my AWS Trusted Advisor Dashboard showing any data?
- How to Transform a Timeboard to a Screenboard or vice versa
- How do I see the number of hosts I'm monitoring?
- How do I change the name of a Dashboard?
- Dashboard loads very slowly/displays no data, but I'm correctly sending data to Datadog
Graphing
- ★ Metric types in Datadog
- Correlate metrics and events using dashboard template variables
- Performing Metric Arithmetic in Graphs / Monitors
- Why does graphing a grouped, arithmetical metric query sometimes yield a blank graph?
- I see unexpected drops to zero on my graph, why?
- Interpolation & the fill modifier explained
Frequently Asked Questions
Communication and Security
- 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?
- Can I whitelist the IP addresses for data coming from Datadog via Webhook and integrations?
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 does the usage details page help me understand my monthly usage?
- Where do I find an overview of your pricing?
- Do you support hourly pricing?
- How will an AWS integration impact my monthly billing?
- How will a Google Cloud integration impact my monthly billing?
- How will a VMware vSphere integration impact my monthly billing?
Integrations
Troubleshooting
- Troubleshooting and Deep Dive for Kafka
- I Have a Matching Bean for my JMX integration but nothing on Collect !
- Connection Issues with the SQL Server Integration
- Collecting Composite type JMX attributes
- How to run JMX commands in Windows?
- MySQL Localhost Error - Localhost VS 127.0.0.1
General
- Why events don't appear to be showing up in the event stream with my github integration ?
- Can I install the agent on my Kubernetes master node(s)
- Collect Custom Windows Performance Counters over WMI
- Both my JMX and AWS integrations use "name" tags. What do I do?
- Reduce Docker Health-Check Event Spam
- How to send TCP/UDP host metrics via the Datadog API ?
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?
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?
APIs, Libraries and Community Contributions
API
- Query the Infrastructure List via the 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
Community - Custom Projects by our community
- Veneur: Centralized Dogstatsd percentiles, histograms and sets across hosts
- 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
- 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
- Data aggregation with dogstatsd/Threadstats - Am I seeing the exact values sampled in my code? How and why is the aggregation performed?
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?