Best practices
Now, let's look at the best practices in making use of monitoring standards and the support provided by Datadog:
- When monitoring network devices using SNMP integration, the number of metrics that you must handle can be overwhelming. So, it's important to identify a few key metrics that can track performance and proactively identify issues, and implement monitors using those.
- JMX can be used to manipulate the workings of the application and such things shouldn't be implemented on the monitoring infrastructure side because monitoring is essentially a ready-only activity. In other words, monitoring applications won't initiate any corrective actions usually because monitoring is not considered part of the application system and the non-availability of a monitoring tool should not hamper the workings of the main application it monitors.
- StatsD is designed to handle only metrics that can be consumed by applications such as Datadog. It&apos...