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What is Datadog?

Datadog is an observability platform that supports every phase of software development on any stack. The platform consists of many products that help you build, test, monitor, debug, optimize, and secure your software. These products can be used individually or combined into a customized solution.

The table below lists a few examples of Datadog products:

Category	Product examples
Development	Facilitate a remote pair-programming session with CoScreen. Highlight code vulnerabilities in your text editor or on GitHub with Code Analysis.
Testing	Block faulty code from deploying to production with Quality Gates. Simulate users around the globe to test your web app, API, or mobile application with Synthetic Monitoring.
Monitoring	Ingest logs, metrics, events, and network traces with granular control over processing, aggregation, and alerting. Assess host performance with Continuous Profiler. Assess application performance with Application Performance Monitoring.
Troubleshooting	Manage errors and incidents, summarizing issues and suggesting fixes. Measure user churn and detect user frustration with Real User Monitoring.
Security	Detect threats and attacks with Datadog Security.

Additionally, hundreds of integrations allow you to layer Datadog features over the technologies you already use. For example, the AWS integration collects logs, events, and metrics from more than 90 AWS services.

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Take a course

The Datadog Learning Center offers hands-on experience with the Datadog platform. The Getting Started courses cover observability practices, key Datadog concepts, and more.

For the fastest introduction to navigating Datadog, try the Quick Start course.

Dive deeper into a product area

Get started with one of the guides below:

Datadog: Discover how to use the Datadog UI: Dashboards, infrastructure list, maps, and more.

Datadog Site: Select the appropriate Datadog site for your region and security requirements.

DevSecOps Bundles: Get started with the APM DevSecOps and Infrastructure DevSecOps bundles.

Agent: Send metrics and events from your hosts to Datadog.

API: Get started with the Datadog HTTP API.

Integrations: Learn how to collect metrics, traces, and logs with Datadog integrations.

Tags: Start tagging your metrics, logs, and traces.

OpenTelemetry: Learn how to send OpenTelemetry metrics, traces, and logs to Datadog.

Learning Center: Follow a learning path, take a self-guided class or lab, and explore the Datadog certification program.

Platform Services:

Dashboards: Create, share, and maintain dashboards that answer the work questions that matter to you.

Monitors: Set up alerts and notifications so that your team knows when critical changes occur.

Incident Management: Communicate and track problems in your systems.

Workflow Automation: Automate end-to-end processes in response to alerts and security signals.

Product:

Containers: Learn how to use Agent Autodiscovery and the Datadog operator.

Serverless for AWS Lambda: Learn how to collect metrics, logs, and traces from your serverless infrastructure.

Service Catalog: Manage service ownership, reliability, and performance at scale in Service Catalog.

Tracing: Set up the Agent to trace a small application.

Profiler: Use Continuous Profiler to find and fix performance problems in your code.

Database Monitoring: View the health and performance of databases, and quickly troubleshoot any issues that arise.

Synthetic Monitoring: Start testing and monitoring your API endpoints and key business journeys with Synthetic tests.

Session Replay: Get an in-depth look at how users are interacting with your product with Session Replays.

Continuous Testing: Run end-to-end Synthetic tests in your CI pipelines and IDEs.

Application Security Management: Discover best practices for getting your team up and running with ASM.

Cloud Security Management: Discover best practices for getting your team up and running with CSM.

Cloud SIEM: Discover best practices for getting your team up and running with Cloud SIEM.

Logs: Send your first logs and use log processing to enrich them.

Test Visibility: Collect CI test data by setting up test services in Datadog.

Intelligent Test Runner: Optimize your test suite and reduce CI costs by only running tests that are relevant to your code changes.

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