Uploaded April 2021 | Updated September 2026, 10 hours ago
On this episode, the balena IoT Happy Hour team will talk about how to gather device metrics in real-time from a balena fleet using Datadog.
Monitoring your fleet of devices with an agent running beside the application, you can better understand what the application is doing, watch CPU consumption, network activity, and then determine if the application can use smaller hardware, or conversely need to upgrade to a more robust device.
Expect live demos and instructions to build it yourself at home.
Read more here: balena.io/blog/iot-fleet-monitoring-with-datadog-and-balenacloud-how-small-agent-containers-make-a-big-impact
00:00 Welcome and introduction
01:21 Fleet health diagnostics introduction
04:53 What's on your desk?
14:55 Fleet health diagnostics with Datadog and balena
20:00 Does Datadog IoT Agent affect the device performance?
24:00 Datadog IoT Agent on balena introduction
28:10 Fleet health diagnostics introduction
34.55 Comparing performance of Pi4 and NanoPi with balena running Kerberos on Datadog
37:49 Measure application network traffic needs
41:00 Continue comparing performances of the devices
55:20 balena is hiring
57:00 Good bye
On this episode, the balena IoT Happy Hour team will talk about how to gather device metrics in real-time from a balena fleet using Datadog.
Monitoring your fleet of devices with an agent running beside the application, you can better understand what the application is doing, watch CPU consumption, network activity, and then determine if the application can use smaller hardware, or conversely need to upgrade to a more robust device.
Expect live demos and instructions to build it yourself at home.
Read more here: balena.io/blog/iot-fleet-monitoring-with-datadog-and-balenacloud-how-small-agent-containers-make-a-big-impact
00:00 Welcome and introduction
01:21 Fleet health diagnostics introduction
04:53 What's on your desk?
14:55 Fleet health diagnostics with Datadog and balena
20:00 Does Datadog IoT Agent affect the device performance?
24:00 Datadog IoT Agent on balena introduction
28:10 Fleet health diagnostics introduction
34.55 Comparing performance of Pi4 and NanoPi with balena running Kerberos on Datadog
37:49 Measure application network traffic needs
41:00 Continue comparing performances of the devices
55:20 balena is hiring
57:00 Good bye
