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Migrating to Datadog

Master basics (metrics/ logs/ traces/ profiles), pre-migration planning, platform setup (agents/ ngestion/ dashboards/ security), and post-migration optimization via demos.

Pedro Ignácio

Senior Platform Engineer and Security Specialist

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Welcome to the Migrating to Datadog course, your complete hands-on guide to building a modern observability platform.As businesses scale and systems grow more complex, having a robust observability platform is essential. Datadog offers a powerful, integrated solution for monitoring infrastructure, applications, and services. This demo-based course takes you through every stage of migrating to Datadog, from understanding observability fundamentals to post-migration optimization.

Built for DevOps engineers, SREs, platform teams, and architects, this course combines real-world insights, best practices, and hands-on demos to help you migrate with confidence.

Course Modules

1. Observability Basics

Begin with a foundational understanding of observability. Learn what observability is, why it matters, and how engineers use it daily. Explore its four key pillars—metrics, logs, traces, and profiles—and discover how OpenTelemetry plays a role in modern observability practices.

2. Datadog Basics

Get to know Datadog’s core offerings. Learn how the platform works, understand its SaaS architecture, and explore integrations, Datadog agents, and serverless connectors through guided demonstrations.

3. Pre-Migration

Learn how to evaluate your existing (legacy) observability stack and build a migration strategy. Understand the reasons for migrating, compare enterprise and open-source solutions, and decide between phased vs big bang approaches. This section covers planning, communication, orchestration, application and infrastructure considerations, and how to plan for rollback and feedback.

4. Migration – What Should You Look Into

Identify the critical components to address during your migration. This section helps you assess legacy dashboards, alerts, business rules, and the possibilities Datadog brings for enhancing your monitoring setup.

5. Migration – Structuring Your Platform

Design a scalable and secure Datadog platform. Learn to define your architecture, enable end-to-end monitoring, and configure data ingestion for metrics, logs, traces, profiles, and RUM. You'll also explore visualization techniques, creating dashboards and alerts, and setting up IAM, RBAC, and other security best practices. Learn from real-world implementation lessons to avoid common pitfalls.

6. Post-Migration

After migration, it's time to evaluate and optimize. This section covers deactivating legacy stacks, analyzing alerts, incident response, scaling dashboards, improving collaboration, and making the most out of Datadog features like Watchdog and platform integrations (Slack, Teams, Zoom, etc.). You'll also discover learning resources and public success stories to stay updated.

Why Take This Course

Built around guided demos
Teaches both technical execution and strategic planning
Led by experts with real-world Datadog migration experience
Covers the complete migration lifecycle

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Who Should Take This Course

DevOps engineers and SREs modernizing their observability stack
Teams moving from tools like Prometheus, Grafana, or ELK
Architects and platform engineers building scalable monitoring setups
Anyone responsible for observability, monitoring, or incident response

Migrate with clarity. Build with confidence. Get the most out of Datadog. Enroll now and start your migration journey today.

About the instructor

Pedro Ignácio is a Docker Captain, Microsoft MVP, Security Specialist and Platform Engineer specialized in Observability and Application modernization. In his experience, Pedro has led multiple cloud migration projects and the creation of highly critical systems for banking. A lover of Open Source, Pedro uses his free time to help grow technology communities in Latin America and to contribute to Open Source initiatives.

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Observability Basics

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Introduction 02:56

Course Introduction 04:00

Exploring Observability 04:07

Observability Flow 03:23

Observability Pillars 06:45

OpenTelemetry 05:21

Quiz: Observability Basics

Datadog Basics

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Datadog 01:22

Understanding the Architecture 06:45

Integrations 02:50

Datadog Agents 04:05

Serverless Connectors 02:52

Quiz: Datadog Basics

Pre-Migration

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Understanding Your Legacy Stack 08:05

Reasons to Migrate 02:33

Enterprise x Open Source 07:00

Evaluating Your Options 04:00

Strategy 05:58

Approach 04:11

Applications 04:48

Infrastructure 01:52

Rollback 02:18

Feedback 03:05

Lessons Learned 03:19

Quiz: Pre-Migration

Migration - What should you look into

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Starting Your Migration 01:48

Focusing on Your Legacy 09:32

Dashboards 04:20

Alerts 03:27

Business Rules 02:35

Exploring Your Possibilities 03:23

Quiz: Migration – What Should You Look Into

Migration - Structuring your Platform

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Defining Your Architecture 03:49

Tailoring Your Configuration 01:41

Data Ingestion 03:00

Demo: Data Ingestion 26:56

Data Visualization 05:46

Demo: Data Visualization 19:23

Security - IAM 02:42

Demo: Security - IAM 23:10

Security Architecture – Concerns and Thoughts 03:44

Learned lessons 02:14

Quiz: Migration – Structuring Your Platform

Post-Migration

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Evaluating Your Results 02:20

Deactivating Your Legacy Stack 05:40

Responding 05:40

Collaboration Culture 03:00

Watchdog 03:02

Lessons Learned 01:30

Keeping in Touch 01:17

Quiz: Post-Migration

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