Datadog Metrics
Datadog Metrics is a core feature of the Datadog monitoring and analytics platform that allows developers and operations teams to collect, visualize, and analyze time-series metrics from applications, infrastructure, and services. It enables real-time tracking of performance indicators like CPU usage, request latency, and error rates through customizable dashboards and alerts. This helps organizations monitor system health, troubleshoot issues, and optimize performance across distributed environments.
Developers should use Datadog Metrics when building or maintaining cloud-native or distributed applications that require comprehensive observability, such as microservices architectures or serverless functions, to gain insights into application behavior and resource utilization. It is particularly valuable for DevOps and SRE teams needing to correlate metrics with logs and traces for root cause analysis, ensuring high availability and performance in production environments. Learning it is essential for roles focused on monitoring, scalability, and incident response in modern tech stacks.