Datadog: Performance Monitoring and APM for Cloud Environments is an intermediate-level course designed to equip DevOps engineers, site reliability engineers, and developers with comprehensive application performance monitoring skills. In today's complex distributed systems landscape, traditional monitoring approaches fail to provide the visibility needed for effective troubleshooting and optimization. This course teaches you to implement Datadog APM solutions that provide end-to-end request tracing, intelligent alerting, and business-impact analysis across cloud-native architectures. Through hands-on labs, real-world case studies, and practical implementation scenarios, you'll master agent deployment strategies, trace analysis techniques, and dashboard design principles that transform raw performance data into actionable insights. Whether you're monitoring microservices on Kubernetes, serverless functions, or hybrid cloud deployments, this course provides the expertise needed to build observability systems that improve user experience, reduce incident response time, and support data-driven performance optimization decisions.
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In this introductory lesson, learners will explore the fundamentals of application performance monitoring and establish their Datadog APM environment. You'll understand what makes modern APM essential for cloud-native applications, configure Datadog agents across different environments, and begin collecting your first traces. By the end of this lesson, you'll have a solid foundation in APM concepts and hands-on experience with Datadog agent deployment.
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In this lesson, learners will master the creation of effective monitoring dashboards and implement proactive alerting strategies that prevent performance issues before they impact users. You'll learn to design dashboards that tell performance stories, configure intelligent alerts that reduce noise while catching critical issues, and build monitoring workflows that support both operational teams and business stakeholders. The lesson culminates in a comprehensive capstone project where you'll implement a complete APM monitoring solution.
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In this final lesson, learners will master the creation of effective monitoring dashboards and implement proactive alerting strategies that prevent performance issues before they impact users. You'll learn to design dashboards that tell performance stories, configure intelligent alerts that reduce noise while catching critical issues, and build monitoring workflows that support both operational teams and business stakeholders. The lesson culminates in a comprehensive capstone project where you'll implement a complete APM monitoring solution.
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