
Datadog Cloud Monitoring Quick Start Guide
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In a large-scale environment where the Datadog Agent runs on several hundred hosts monitoring a variety of microservices and applications running on them, there will be scores of events published to the event stream dashboard every minute. In such a situation, manually looking through the event stream is not viable, and standard search methods have to be used to locate events of interest. Datadog provides multiple options for searching and filtering to get the correct set of events.
As we have seen in the previous section, you can specify a time window in the Show field to look at events only from a specific time period. As shown in the following screenshot, the time window can be specified in a variety of ways:
Figure 5.6 – Time window options to filter events
The time can be specified as follows: