Official docs outline
14 sections- Getting Started
Platform overview: agents, integrations, products and onboarding concepts.
- The Datadog Agent
Agent architecture, installation targets, configuration and collection of metrics, logs and traces.
- Tagging
Tag structure, unified service tagging and using tags for filtering and aggregation.
- Integrations
Out-of-the-box integrations for cloud services, databases and software.
- Metrics
Metric types, submission, queries, units and custom metrics.
- Log Management
Log collection, processing pipelines, indexing, archives and search.
- APM and Distributed Tracing
Instrumentation, traces and spans, service map and trace sampling.
- Monitors and Alerting
Monitor types, thresholds, notifications and downtime.
- Dashboards
Dashboards, widgets, template variables and notebooks.
- Synthetic Monitoring
API and browser tests that simulate user traffic.
- Security
Cloud SIEM, Cloud Security Management and application security.
- OpenTelemetry
Ingesting OpenTelemetry data via collector or OTLP.
- API and Application Keys
Authentication keys for the API and Agent and their scopes.
- Incident Management
Declaring, tracking and resolving incidents.
Each section links to the official page. Titles and summaries by Extra Credit; the docs belong to their authors.