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Datadog Learning Roadmap

Unified SaaS observability — metrics, logs, APM, and infrastructure monitoring.

Estimated time:3–4 weeks

1🌱

Phase 1 — Fundamentals

Agent installation & configuration

Tags & tagging strategy

Infrastructure list & host maps

Dashboards & widgets

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Distributed tracing (APM)

Log pipelines & processors

Log-to-metric generation

Correlating traces, logs, and metrics

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Monitor types (metric, anomaly, composite)

Notification & escalation policies

SLOs & error budgets

Watchdog (automatic anomaly detection)

4💰

important

Custom metrics cost management

Log volume filtering/sampling

Terraform provider for Datadog-as-code

Security monitoring (Cloud SIEM)

Begin with interview questions to assess your current level.