2022 Workshops

When using Microsoft Azure to host your applications and workloads, it’s important to know how to keep track of what’s going on and what to do if things go wrong in the middle of the night. Datadog offers the ability to monitor modern applications in Azure and gives you the information you need to take action when things go wrong (or right!).

Join us for this challenge-based workshop where you will learn how you can use Datadog to keep an eye on your Azure environment. Working in groups of three to five people, you will get hands-on experience with Datadog by solving technical challenges using a sample application environment in Azure. Working with different types of applications, you will explore how to use Datadog to set up alerts, activity log collection, application tracing, and dashboards.

You will leave this workshop with a solid understanding of how you can integrate Datadog into your Azure environment. And, you will learn how to understand and identify which metrics, traces, logs, and business indicators from your own services are key for monitoring your Azure-hosted applications.

This workshop is sponsored by Microsoft Azure.

Every day, new companies are adopting Kubernetes as the base for their internal development platforms and increasing the number of workloads that they are running on top of the orchestrator. For their platform teams, learning how to successfully monitor Kubernetes and identify potential issues becomes critical.

In this hands-on workshop, you will use the Datadog Operator to deploy the Datadog Agent and Cluster Agent in a Kubernetes environment. You will learn how to use Datadog’s Live Containers, Live Processes, and Kubernetes views to understand the state of your cluster. We will also walk through some of the key metrics to pay attention to when operating Kubernetes and show you how to enable monitors for them. Using simulated outages, you will identify potential issues in a cluster, find the root causes, fix the issues, and get the cluster back to a working state.

In this workshop, you will walk through a series of small tasks in order to learn how to set up and get the most out of monitoring GCP with Datadog. You will start by configuring the integration and connecting your GCP account to Datadog. You will also see how to use the Datadog Agent to collect metrics from applications running on a GKE cluster. You will then explore how to generate alerts for specific cloud events and trigger conditional actions using Google Eventarc. Finally, we’ll try out Datadog’s new Google Cloud Run integration to bring it all together.

This workshop is sponsored by Google Cloud.

Cloud infrastructure today is complex. It’s the relationship between hosts, containers, managed cloud services, and of course cloud resources like blob storage, users and roles, and the cloud control plane. To effectively secure cloud infrastructure it’s critical to correlate information from a variety of sources. In particular, information about the state of resources, coupled with detection of suspicious and anomalous activity within those resources.

In this workshop, you will wear the hat of an engineer investigating an actual cloud-native attack against a real AWS environment. The attack will make use of techniques leveraged by attackers in the real world. After familiarizing yourself with the infrastructure - that you’ll have a chance to experiment with - you will identify, investigate, assess the full extent, and actively remediate the attack, leveraging Datadog CSPM and CWS to capture the entire attacker lifecycle. You will also experience how valuable observability is when investigating security incidents!

GameDays are collaborative learning exercises that test skills in implementing AWS solutions to solve real-world problems in gamified, risk-free environments. These are completely interactive opportunities for technical professionals to explore AWS services, architecture patterns, best practices, and group cooperation without step-by-step instructions.

Participants will be provided with free, live AWS and Datadog accounts to solve a variety of challenges. Our events are open-ended to provide flexibility to think creatively and experiment. Our leaderboard adds an element of competition, as teams earn or lose points based on their progress. Top teams earn prizes!

This event is best played in teams of two, but pairs are not required.

This workshop is sponsored by AWS.

Good news! We’ve added fresh new content to Datadog’s Capture the Flag in partnership with Hack The Box. Join us to get hands-on with our latest and greatest security products, including the latest innovations from the Application Security Management (ASM) team.

Whether you’re a newcomer or a seasoned veteran of security monitoring, this set of challenges has something for you. Throughout the contest, you’ll have the opportunity to use Datadog’s security products, including file integrity monitoring, to investigate a range of real-world threats. Don’t miss out on the chance to play Capture the Flag and learn more about web application security with Datadog.

This event is best played in teams of two, but pairs are not required.

Now that you’ve established your baseline observability, what’s next? In this hands-on workshop, you’ll learn a variety of techniques for composing an executive dashboard that displays a mix of preset and custom widgets. This dashboard will include custom revenue metrics from logs and a UX SLO from a synthetic browser test.

You will then create a special-purpose notebook for troubleshooting business-critical UX issues. This runbook will use graphs, text, and links to guide colleagues through investigating, diagnosing, and resolving application issues.

Along the way, you’ll learn techniques and shortcuts that will increase your productivity in everyday Datadog tasks.

In this workshop, you’ll learn how to use Datadog to trace through popular AWS managed services like API Gateway, SNS, and SQS—and how you can use these insights to successfully operate your serverless services at scale. You’ll see this firsthand by designing, deploying, and monitoring a fully serverless GitHub bot.

As modern environments grow in size and complexity, teams need new solutions to help them manage and route large volumes of telemetry data. This workshop will show you how to use Observability Pipelines to address these challenges by using a highly scalable platform to collect, transform, and route data in your own environment.

In this workshop, you will learn how to set up Observability Pipelines on an existing cluster environment and configure the Datadog Agent to utilize it. You will also learn how Observability Pipelines can empower you to tamp down on these logs, manage data costs, improve compliance, and improve data visibility in your own environment.