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Top Datadog interview questions and answers

How do you get hired at Datadog?

How to Prepare

  1. Use your network. Reach out to your alumni network and see if they can offer you insight into Datadog and the interview process.
  2. Do your research. Do research on Datadog, such as their culture, current projects, company goals, etc.
  3. Practice makes perfect.

Where did Datadog get its name?

Olivier: I actually don’t have a dog, my co-founder doesn’t have a dog – never had a dog. But in our previous company, we used to name the production “servers dogs”. “Data dogs” were production databases and “Data Dog 17” was the horrible, horrible, Oracle database that everyone lived in fear of.

Is Datadog cybersecurity?

Developers, cyber security, and operations teams can all leverage detailed observability data to accelerate security investigations. … Datadog Security Monitoring provides end-to-end security visibility for dynamic cloud environments in a unified platform.

What is a facet in Datadog?

Facets are user-defined tags and attributes from your indexed logs. They are meant for either qualitative or quantitative data analysis. As such, you can use them in your Log Explorer to Search upon your logs. Define log patterns.

Is SIEM a Datadog?

The Datadog Cloud Security Platform includes: … As an easy-to-use cloud-native SIEM, Security Monitoring provides out-of-the-box security integrations and threat detection rules that are easy to extend and customize.

What is the Datadog agent?

The Datadog Agent is software that runs on your hosts. It collects events and metrics from hosts and sends them to Data dog, where you can analyze your monitoring and performance data. The Data dog Agent is open source and its source code is available on GitHub at Data Dog/data dog-agent.

Is there a free version of Datadog?

Datadog, with its customizable dashboards, is free for up to 5 hosts (with 1-day data retention). After that, customers are billed at $15/host per month. There’s also a 14-day free trial available. You can check the updated pricing of the Datadog infrastructure on the website.

What is Datadog security?

Datadog Security Monitoring, a part of the Datadog Cloud Security Platform, provides robust threat detection for dynamic, cloud-scale environments. … Developers, security, and operations teams can also leverage detailed observability data to accelerate security investigations in a single, unified platform.

What is a flare in Datadog?

Flare gathers all of the Agent’s configuration files and logs into an archive file. It removes sensitive information including passwords, API keys, Proxy credentials, and SNMP community strings. Confirm the upload of the archive to immediately send it to Datadog support.

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