Datadog is a SaaS-based observability platform that provides monitoring and analytics for applications and infrastructure.

===== Datadog Fundamentals Certification =====

  * [[https://www.datadoghq.com/pdf/datadog-fundamentals-exam-guide-jan25.pdf|Exam Guide]] (from the [[https://www.datadoghq.com/certification/overview/|Datadog Certifications Page]])
  * [[https://learn.datadoghq.com/courses/datadog-fundamentals-practice-exam|25 Question Practice Exam Sign Up Page]]

===== What to Study =====

From the exam guide above.

Courses (the [[https://learn.datadoghq.com/pages/learning-center-updates-april-2025|sre and dev courses have been replaced]], even though they're still mentioned in the exam guide):

  * https://learn.datadoghq.com/courses/introduction-to-observability  
  * https://learn.datadoghq.com/courses/dd-101-dev  
  * https://learn.datadoghq.com/courses/dd-101-sre

Documentation to Review:

  * Getting Started
  * Datadog Agent
  * Metrics
  * Infrastructure List
  * API and Application Keys
  * Integrations
  * Docker Daemon
  * Query to the graph
  * Docker Agent
  * Metrics API
  * Monitor types
  * DogStatsD
  * ddtrace
  * Canonical Hostnames

===== Register for Exam =====

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