Datadog Software Catalog offers a central source of truth about the many interdependent software services that your organization operates and maintains. When monitoring reveals issues with any particular service, it is often challenging to quickly find needed information about that service—such as contact information for the engineers in charge of supporting it, its upstream and downstream dependencies, or any associated logs, performance telemetry, or security insights. The Software Catalog solves this problem by providing an always-available reference for the most important service-related information, along with an interactive map that visualizes how all your services work together.

This beginner-friendly course will teach you how to navigate the different views of the Software Catalog. It will also teach you how, for any service entry, to create metadata that allows your teams to easily access supplementary resources such as associated runbooks, documentation, contact information, and code repositories.

By the end of this course, you’ll be able to do the following:

• Explain the features and benefits of the Software Catalog.
• Access and navigate the primary views of the Software Catalog, including:
  • The Ownership view
  • The Reliability view
  • The Performance view
  • The Security view
  • The Service Map view
• Describe how a service definition is used to create an entry in the Software Catalog.
• Explain how service-related data is populated into the Software Catalog.
• Successfully create new service definitions by using the following tools:
  • The user interface
  • Service definition files
  • The Datadog API
• Use the Software Catalog to access supplementary resources (for example monitors, traces, and dashboards) for a given service.

This course is designed for developers, DevOps engineers, application owners, and site reliability engineering (SRE) teams who will be using Datadog to support applications or monitor application ownership, performance, and dependency information.

• Completion of the Learning Environment course
• Recommended: Ability to understand YAML files

In order to complete the course, you will need:

• Google Chrome or Firefox

At the bottom of each lesson, click the MARK LESSON COMPLETE AND CONTINUE button so that you are marked as having completed each lesson and can receive the certificate at the end of the course.

Please note that your enrollment in this course ends after 30 days. You can re-enroll at any time and pick up where you left off.