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title: Getting Started in Datadog
further_reading:
- link: 'https://learn.datadoghq.com/courses/dd-101-dev'
- link: 'https://learn.datadoghq.com/bundles/frontend-engineer-learning-path'
tag: 'Learning Center'
text: 'Datadog 101: Developer'
- link: 'https://learn.datadoghq.com/courses/dd-101-sre'
text: 'Frontend Engineer Learning Path'
- link: 'https://learn.datadoghq.com/bundles/backend-engineer-learning-path'
tag: 'Learning Center'
text: 'Datadog 101: Site Reliability Engineer'
text: 'Backend Engineer Learning Path'
- link: 'https://learn.datadoghq.com/bundles/site-reliability-engineer-learning-path'
tag: 'Learning Center'
text: 'Site Reliability Engineer Learning Path'
- link: 'https://dtdg.co/fe'
tag: 'Foundation Enablement'
text: 'Join an interactive session to build a solid foundation of Datadog'
- link: 'https://www.datadoghq.com/blog/datadog-quick-nav-menu/'
tag: 'Blog'
text: 'Introducing the Datadog quick nav menu'
- link: 'https://www.datadoghq.com/blog/engineering/druids-the-design-system-that-powers-datadog/'
tag: 'Blog'
text: 'DRUIDS, the design system that powers Datadog'
---

{{< learning-center-callout header="Try Datadog Foundation in the Learning Center" btn_title="Enroll Now" btn_url="https://learn.datadoghq.com/courses/datadog-foundation">}}
Learn without cost on real cloud compute capacity and a Datadog trial account. Start these hands-on labs to get up to speed with services, logs, metrics, integrations, and dashboards.
{{< learning-center-callout header="Try Datadog Core Skills in the Learning Center" btn_title="Enroll Now" btn_url="https://learn.datadoghq.com/bundles/core-skills-learning-path">}}

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Learn without cost on real cloud compute capacity and a Datadog trial account. Start these hands-on labs to get up to speed with tagging, metrics, monitors, and dashboards.
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## Overview
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**Tip**: You can press <kbd>Cmd</kbd>/<kbd>Ctrl</kbd> + <kbd>K</kbd> to search for pages and entities, like dashboards and monitors, across Datadog.

## Integrations

{{< img src="getting_started/application/integrations-2024.png" alt="Integrations" >}}

- Datadog has over {{< translate key="integration_count" >}} integrations [officially listed][2].
- Custom integrations are available through the [Datadog API][3].
- The Agent is [open source][4].
- Once integrations have been configured, all data is treated the same throughout Datadog, whether it is living in a datacenter or in an online service.

## Dashboards

[Dashboards][12] contain graphs with real-time performance metrics.

- Synchronous mousing across all graphs in a [screenboard][13].
- Vertical bars are events. They put a metric into context.
- Click and drag on a graph to zoom in on a particular timeframe.
- As you hover over the graph, the event stream moves with you.
- Display by zone, host, or total usage.
- Datadog exposes a JSON editor for the graph, allowing for [arithmetic][14] and [functions][15] to be applied to metrics.
- Share a graph snapshot that appears in the stream.
- Graphs can be embedded in an iframe. This enables you to give a third party access to a live graph without also giving access to your data or any other information.

## Monitors

[Monitors][16] provide alerts and notifications based on metric thresholds, integration availability, network endpoints, and more.

- Use any metric reporting to Datadog
- Set up multi alerts by device, host, and more
- Use `@` in alert messages to direct notifications to the right people
- Schedule downtimes to suppress notifications for system shutdowns, off-line maintenance, and more

## Events

[The Event Explorer][10] displays the most recent events generated by your infrastructure and services.

Events can include the following:

- Code deployments
- Service health changes
- Configuration changes
- Monitoring alerts

The Event Explorer automatically gathers events collected by the Agent and installed integrations.

You can also submit your own custom events using the Datadog API, custom Agent checks, DogStatsD, or the Events email API.

In the Event Explorer, filter your events by facets or search queries. Group or filter events by attribute and graphically represent them with [event analytics][11].

## Infrastructure

- All machines show up in the [infrastructure list][7].
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See [Host Map][9] for more details.

## Serverless
## Log Management

[Serverless][20] lets you write event-driven code and upload it to a cloud provider, which manages all of the underlying compute resources. Datadog Serverless brings together metrics, traces, and logs from your AWS Lambda functions running serverless applications into one view, so that you can optimize performance by filtering to functions that are generating errors, high latency, or cold starts.
[Datadog Log Management][5] lets you send and process every log produced by your applications and infrastructure. You can observe your logs in real-time using the Live Tail, without indexing them. You can ingest all of the logs from your applications and infrastructure, decide what to index dynamically with filters, and then store them in an archive.

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## APM & Continuous Profiler

[Datadog Application Performance Monitoring][6] (APM or tracing) provides you with deep insight into your application's performance—from automatically generated dashboards for monitoring key metrics, like request volume and latency, to detailed traces of individual requests—side by side with your logs and infrastructure monitoring. When a request is made to an application, Datadog can see the traces across a distributed system, and show you systematic data about precisely what is happening to this request.

## Cloud Network Monitoring

{{< img src="getting_started/npm.png" alt="NPM" >}}
## RUM & Session Replay

Datadog [Cloud Network Monitoring][17] (NPM) gives you visibility into your network traffic across any tagged object in Datadog: from containers to hosts, services, and availability zones. Group by anything—from datacenters to teams to individual containers. Use tags to filter traffic by source and destination. The filters then aggregate into flows, each showing traffic between one source and one destination, through a customizable network page and network map. Each flow contains network metrics such as throughput, bandwidth, retransmit count, and source/destination information down to the IP, port, and PID levels. It then reports key metrics such as traffic volume and TCP retransmits.
Datadog [Real User Monitoring][18] (RUM) allows you to visualize and analyze real-time user activities and experiences. With [Session Replay][19], you can capture and view the web browsing sessions of your users to better understand their behavior. In the RUM Explorer, you can not only visualize load times, frontend errors, and page dependencies, but also you can correlate business and application metrics to troubleshoot issues with application, infrastructure, and business metrics in one dashboard.

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## Synthetic Monitoring

Datadog [Synthetic Monitoring][22] allow you to create and run API and browser tests that proactively simulate user transactions on your applications and monitor all internal and external network endpoints across your system's layers. You can detect errors, identify regressions, and automate rollbacks to prevent issues from surfacing in production.

## RUM & Session Replay

Datadog [Real User Monitoring][18] (RUM) allows you to visualize and analyze real-time user activities and experiences. With [Session Replay][19], you can capture and view the web browsing sessions of your users to better understand their behavior. In the RUM Explorer, you can not only visualize load times, frontend errors, and page dependencies, but also you can correlate business and application metrics to troubleshoot issues with application, infrastructure, and business metrics in one dashboard.
## Integrations

## Cloud SIEM
{{< img src="getting_started/application/integrations-2024.png" alt="Integrations" >}}

Datadog [Cloud SIEM][21] (Security Information and Event Management) automatically detects threats to your application or infrastructure. For example, a targeted attack, an IP communicating with your systems matching a threat intel list, or an insecure configuration. These threats are surfaced in Datadog as Security Signals and can be correlated and triaged in the Security Explorer.
- Datadog has over {{< translate key="integration_count" >}} integrations [officially listed][2].
- Custom integrations are available through the [Datadog API][3].
- The Agent is [open source][4].
- After integrations have been configured, all data is treated the same throughout Datadog, whether it is living in a data center or in an online service.

## Log Management
## Dashboards

[Datadog Log Management][5] lets you send and process every log produced by your applications and infrastructure. You can observe your logs in real-time using the Live Tail, without indexing them. You can ingest all of the logs from your applications and infrastructure, decide what to index dynamically with filters, and then store them in an archive.
[Dashboards][12] contain graphs with real-time performance metrics.

- Synchronous mousing across all graphs in a [screenboard][13].
- Vertical bars are events. They put a metric into context.
- Click and drag on a graph to zoom in on a particular time frame.
- As you hover over the graph, the Event Stream moves with you.
- Display by zone, host, or total usage.
- Datadog exposes a JSON editor for the graph, allowing for [arithmetic][14] and [functions][15] to be applied to metrics.
- Share a graph snapshot that appears in the stream.
- Graphs can be embedded in an iframe. This enables you to give a third party access to a live graph without also giving access to your data or any other information.

## Datadog on Mobile
## Monitors

The [Datadog Mobile App][23], available on the [Apple App Store][24] and [Google Play Store][25], gives key data for on-call engineers and business users to follow their service health and triage issues quickly without opening their laptop. Access your organization's Dashboards, Monitors, Incidents, SLOs and more directly from your mobile device.
[Monitors][16] provide alerts and notifications based on metric thresholds, integration availability, network endpoints, and more.

{{< img src="getting_started/application/mobile-app-store-screens.png" style="width:100%; background:none; border:none; box-shadow:none;" alt="Mobile App on iOS">}}
- Use any metric reporting to Datadog
- Set up multi alerts by device, host, and more
- Use `@` in alert messages to direct notifications to the right people
- Schedule downtimes to suppress notifications for system shutdowns, offline maintenance, and more

## Further Reading
{{< partial name="whats-next/whats-next.html" >}}
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[7]: /infrastructure/
[8]: /getting_started/tagging/
[9]: /infrastructure/hostmap/
[10]: /service_management/events/
[11]: /service_management/events/explorer/analytics
[12]: /dashboards/
[13]: /dashboards/#screenboards
[14]: /dashboards/functions/arithmetic/
[15]: /dashboards/functions/
[16]: /monitors/
[17]: /network_monitoring/performance/
[18]: /real_user_monitoring/
[19]: /real_user_monitoring/session_replay/browser/
[20]: /serverless
[21]: /security/cloud_siem/
[22]: /synthetics/
[23]: /mobile/
[24]: https://apps.apple.com/app/datadog/id1391380318
[25]: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.datadog.app
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