# Start finding issues & bottlenecks by installing the Datadog Agent

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Start pinpointing issues & bottlenecks when you install the Datadog Agent

You’ll get hundreds of ready-to-use metrics, dashboards, and more to start finding and fixing issues with deep troubleshooting context

Why do I need to install the Agent?

The first step to seeing into your system is collecting system telemetry. Installing the Datadog Agent is the most powerful way to start collecting and immediately unlocks hundreds of ready-to-use metrics and dashboards on your infrastructure health and performance.

Check out these detailed installation instructions and troubleshooting tips. If you need more help, you can respond directly to this email.

FINISH INSTALLING THE AGENT

Installing the Agent unlocks powerful features like...

Query and visualize hundreds of metrics

No query language needed: visualize metrics like Failed Checkout Attempts by Kubernetes Cluster (example above) across your infrastructure, services, and integrations with just a few clicks.

Find bottlenecks across service dependencies

This flow map shows the downstream dependencies of the web-store app, including two services with high traffic & spiking error rates.

Get notified of future issues with alerting monitors

Set up monitor notifications based on metric thresholds, changes, outliers, and more to notify yourself and others when systems go down. In the example above, High CPU usage was detected on a specific host multiple times in the past 4 hours.

Root-cause issues with deep, distributed traces

Once you’ve found an issue, dive into end-to-end request flows to pinpoint exactly where things went wrong. In the example above, it looks like an underlying GET request from ad-server caused the issue.

FINISH INSTALLING THE AGENT

Questions? You can reply directly to this email for assistance.

Happy monitoring,

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