Infrastructure Monitoring
An introduction to monitoring the health and performance of servers, containers, and third party applications
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Foundation Enablement: Custom Metrics
About This Session
If a metric is not submitted from one of the more than 900 Datadog integrations, it is considered a custom metric. Custom metrics help you track your application KPIs, such as the number of visitors, average customer basket size, request latency, or performance distribution for a custom algorithm.
Learning Objectives
- Differentiate between custom metrics and OOTB metrics available in Datadog via integrations, logs, and APM.
- Describe the four ways to submit a custom metric and understand the relationship between metric submission and metric type.
- Explain the different strategies used to control and track custom metric usage, especially Metrics Without Limits™ (MWL) and estimated usage metrics.
language
english
Availability
1 available
length
60 minutes