Datadog APM monitor trace count discrepancy

You may run into a case when your Datadog APM monitor, configured for trace counting, shows weird, usually low number of traces, compared to Trace Overview section. Look at this monitor: It shows 4 spans: However, Trace Overview shows 28 spans/traces for the same time range: The main question here: why? There is a tool […]

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Datadog + Spring Boot QuickStart

First things first, we can generate the starter project using https://start.spring.io/. Select these dependencies: Then, using documentation here we should set API Key, Application Key and Datadog URI in application.properties file: You can get your API Key and Datadog URI from startup Datadog screen: By the way, Datadog has a trial period. Application Key can […]

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DataDog log search syntax

Suppose we want to find some log entry in DataDog. In this article you’ll find the answers to these questions: First of all, there is an official doc: https://docs.datadoghq.com/logs/explorer/search_syntax. However, from my point of view, this page is not entirely clear; there are still a number of blind spots. There are two types of searches: […]

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