Datadog

What are the component of a Datadog agent?

Difficulty: unrated

Source: bregman-arie/devops-exercises by Arie Bregman

Answer

  • Collector: its role is to collect data from the host on which it's installed. The default period of time as of today is every 15 seconds.
  • Forwarder: responsible for sending the data to Datadog over HTTPS