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Comprehensive Datadog monitoring guidance organized by domain. Load only the reference file relevant to the user's question.

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Monitoring fundamentals, terminology, types of monitoring, tool landscape → Read references/01-introduction-to-monitoring.md
Agent installation, configuration, components, containerized agent, fleet management → Read references/02-deploying-the-agent.md
Dashboards, widgets, Metrics Explorer, Host Map, screenboards/timeboards, notebooks, SLOs → Read references/03-dashboards.md
Users, roles, RBAC, organizations, SSO/SAML, API/app keys, usage tracking → Read references/04-account-management.md

Metric types (count/gauge/histogram/distribution), metric naming, events, tags, tagging strategy, Unified Service Tagging → Read references/05-metrics-events-tags.md
Host metrics (CPU/memory/disk/network), Host Map, infrastructure integrations (Nginx, PostgreSQL, Redis, Kafka), SNMP, cloud integrations (AWS/GCP/Azure), database monitoring → Read references/06-monitoring-infrastructure.md
Monitor types, alert conditions, thresholds, anomaly/forecast/composite monitors, notification templates, downtimes, monitor management API, Terraform monitors → Read references/07-monitors-and-alerts.md