Datadog Concepts

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Internal

Agent

The Datadog agent has a built-in StatsD server, exposed over a configurable port.

Agent and Kubernetes

TO CONTINUE: https://docs.datadoghq.com/developers/dogstatsd/?tab=kubernetes#

DogStatsD

https://docs.datadoghq.com/developers/dogstatsd/

DogStatsD is a metrics aggregation service bundled with the Datadog agent. DogStatsD implements the StatsD protocol and a few extensions (histogram metric type, service checks, events and tagging).

DogStatsD accepts custom metrics,events and service checks over UDP and periodically aggregates them and forwards them to Datadog.

Events

https://docs.datadoghq.com/events/guides/dogstatsd/

Custom Metrics

https://docs.datadoghq.com/metrics/custom_metrics/

Security

API Key

An API key is required by the Datadog Agent to submit metrics and events to Datadog. The API keys are also used by other third-party clients, such as the Pulumi Datadog resource plugin, which provisions infrastructure on the Datadog backend.

Application Key