What The Hack - Datadog On Azure
Introduction
Welcome to the Datadog on Azure hack. This What The Hack provides provides hands on experience on how to monitor Azure workloads using Datadog. This hack was designed specifically for Infrastructure engineers, DevOps engineers, administrators and IT architects who want to build their knowledge on Datadog & Azure. However, anyone with a passion around monitoring is welcome!
Learning Objectives
In this hack, you will be getting hands on experience with monitoring resources (VMs, applications, containers) using Datadog’s capabilities such as logs, metrics, alerts and dashboards.
Challenges
- Challenge 00: Prerequisites - Ready, Set, GO!
- Prepare your environment to work with Azure and Datadog.
- Challenge 01: Alerts, Activity Logs, and Service Health
- Create a monitor for one of your VMs using Terraform
- Challenge 02: Monitoring Basics and Dashboards
- Using the SQL server that is deployed, we will cover the basics of monitoring and Dashboards.
- Challenge 03: Monitoring Azure Virtual Machines
- Datadog agent manual and scalable installations on Windows and VM scale sets.
- Challenge 04: Datadog for Applications
- Monitoring applications deployed to Azure using Datadog.
Prerequisites
- An Azure subscription with Owner access
- Access to Azure Cloud Shell Optionally, on your local workstation:
- Visual Studio Code
- Azure CLI or Azure PowerShell