The WEBSTACK MONITORING project integrates Datadog monitoring services to effectively track and manage the performance and availability of server infrastructure. By leveraging Datadog's comprehensive monitoring capabilities, this project aims to provide real-time insights into system health, application performance, and user experience.
- Real-time Monitoring: Continuously monitor server performance metrics, including CPU usage, memory utilization, disk I/O, and network traffic.
- Application Performance Monitoring (APM): Track application performance, identify bottlenecks, and ensure optimal response times.
- Alerting and Notifications: Set up alerts for critical issues, enabling prompt responses to system anomalies and downtimes.
- Dashboards and Visualization: Create custom dashboards to visualize key metrics and monitor system status at a glance.
- Log Management: Centralize log collection and analysis to troubleshoot issues and improve system performance.
- A Datadog account. If you don't have one, sign up to get started.
- Access to your servers for installing the Datadog Agent.
To begin monitoring your servers, you need to install the Datadog Agent. The installation process varies depending on your operating system.
DD_AGENT_MAJOR_VERSION=7 DD_API_KEY=<YOUR_API_KEY> bash -c "$(curl -L https://s3.amazonaws.com/dd-agent/scripts/install_script.sh)"
- Download the Datadog Agent installer from the Datadog Agent download page.
- Run the installer and follow the prompts. Enter your API key when prompted.
brew install datadog-agent
Replace <YOUR_API_KEY>
with your Datadog API key. This key can be found in the Datadog web interface under Integrations > APIs.
After installation, the Datadog Agent can be configured to monitor specific services and applications. Configuration files can be found in the following locations:
- Linux:
/etc/datadog-agent/datadog.yaml
- Windows:
C:\ProgramData\Datadog\datadog.yaml
- macOS:
/usr/local/etc/datadog-agent/datadog.yaml
Edit the datadog.yaml
file to specify additional configuration settings, such as integrations and log collection.
Once the Datadog Agent is installed and configured, it will automatically begin collecting metrics and reporting them to the Datadog platform. You can log in to your Datadog account and navigate to the Infrastructure tab to view your monitored hosts and services.
Create custom dashboards to visualize key metrics and monitor the health of your infrastructure. You can add various widgets such as graphs, monitors, and heatmaps to your dashboards.
Set up alerts to receive notifications when specific metrics exceed predefined thresholds. This helps in quickly identifying and addressing potential issues. Alerts can be configured under the Monitors tab in the Datadog web interface.
Contributions to the WEBSTACK MONITORING project are welcome. If you have suggestions for improvements or additional features, please submit a pull request or open an issue in the project's repository.
This project is licensed under the MIT License - see the LICENSE file for details.
- Special thanks to the Datadog team for providing an excellent monitoring platform.
- Thanks to all contributors for their valuable input and assistance.