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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

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

• How to configure Auth0 as SAML IdP

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
• How can I rename my organization?
• How Can I Submit A Custom Status Check?
• How do I delete a host or metric from the UI?
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Integrations

• How to create new tickets in Freshservice using Webhooks
• JMX SSL Troubleshooting
• Logstash - Datadog Outputs
• Monitoring Twemproxy
• Using your own MIB with Datadog agent v5.14.x onwards
• Why is my dyn.qps metric delayed?
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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

• Can I use an API to provision dashboards and monitors for my sub-organizations?

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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