Getting Started with Datadog and Moving Off a Zabbix Server
Trying the SaaS monitoring service as a replacement for a self-hosted Zabbix
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
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