It is what you would call a SaaS style operations monitoring service
I now have an environment where I can use Datadog, so I am thinking of migrating from my Zabbix server.
Since it is just the Zabbix server being replaced by Datadog’s service and zabbix-agent being replaced by datadog-agent, anyone who uses Zabbix should be able to grasp how it works.
Once you register an account on the Datagog side so that you can use it, install Datadog-agent on the machines of each platform and start it, you will be able to view beautiful visualized graphs in no time at all.As for installing datadog-agent, various platforms are provided, but most people probably run it on CentOS or Debian Linux.
Installation is easy too, with what is pretty much a one-liner command
More than anything, the fact that the Japanese documentation is so thorough is something users can be grateful for.
Zabbix runs inside our office, but Datadog is off-premises and therefore outside the company, so it may be necessary to keep internal compliance and incident handling in mind. (Actually, this might be the biggest hurdle??)
For now I have confirmed things as far as being able to view the information from the Agent on the Datadog side, so from here on I would like to try alert notifications and log monitoring.