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This assessment reports against your current Datadog Infrastructure, Security, Logging and APM configuration and provide report findings aligned to Datadog & industry best practices.
The assessment considers multiple aspects such as agent release, APM dependencies checks, quality of monitors, dashboards and most effective use and storage of logs.
Outcomes
- Comprehensive report including a rating of the overall alignment against Datadog best practices
- Unveil potential areas of improvements for your configuration
- Identify the existing knowledge of specific areas of your Datadog platform
- Identify the efficiencies and effectiveness of the log management
- Tailor any additional enablement to level up the existing knowledge of the Datadog platform
Monitors
- Review monitor lists
- Alerts assessment
- Alert automation potential
- Escalations assessment – e.g. critical alerts to on-call, non-critical alerts to email / ticketing system
- Assess for sub optimally configured monitors. Aimed at avoiding alert fatigue.
- Quality notification content.
- Monitor tagging & grouping convection and consistency
- Identification of persistent monitor triggers
- Point out any monitors in “NO DATA” state
- Point out any monitors muted indefinitely, and check whether mutes have comments
- Check suggested monitors from APM / services
- Check recommended monitors (Monitors → Create new, recommended tag)
Monitor your infrastructure without having to learn a query language
Seamlessly pivot from logs, traces, and metrics in a single view
Logs
- Comprehensive Log monitor review
- Filters and exclusions for indexing aimed at minimising costs
- Retention periods assessed
- Daily quotas
- Use of log metrics within dashboards for improved visibility
Automatic deployment tracking and comparison of code versions across application, infrastructure, and code profiling metrics
APM
- Assess set of services
- Service & map dependencies review
- Linkage of monitors and services
Dashboards
- Assess set of services
- Service & map dependencies review
- Linkage of monitors and services
Customise views and visualizations that are relevant to your team
Agent
- Examine Infrastructure List – Agent grouping and versions
- Agent deployment gap analysis
- Agent version review
- Assess tags on infrastructure hosts