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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?
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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?
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APM

• Are there possibilities of customizing the traces we collect? Is there also automatic data collection possibilities without any long setup?
• Can I choose which hosts I will enable APM on?
• What is the Difference Between "Type", "Service", "Resource", and "Name"?

Dashboards

• Choose graph line colors
• Distribution Metrics
• Function Example - Visualize the differences in applying various smoothing techniques
• Uptime percentage widget for SLO & SLA use

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?
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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?
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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?
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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?
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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?
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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
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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?
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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?
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