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 This page provides a high-level overview of capabilities available on the [Datadog site][1].
 
-The Datadog site navigation varies based on the width of your browser. You can have up to three types of navigation. To change the navigation type, adjust your browser width.
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-**Tip**: You can press <kbd>Cmd</kbd>/<kbd>Ctrl</kbd> + <kbd>K</kbd> to search for pages and entities, like dashboards and monitors, across Datadog.
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+  The Datadog site navigation varies based on the width of your browser. You can have up to three types of navigation. To change the navigation type, adjust your browser width.
+  <br><br>
+  You can press <kbd>Cmd</kbd>/<kbd>Ctrl</kbd> + <kbd>K</kbd> to search for pages and entities, like dashboards and monitors, across Datadog.
+</div>
 
 ## Infrastructure
 
-- All machines show up in the [infrastructure list][7].
-- You can see the tags applied to each machine. Tagging allows you to indicate which machines have a particular purpose.
-- Datadog attempts to automatically categorize your servers. If a new machine is tagged, you can immediately see the stats for that machine based on what was previously set up for that tag. [Read more on tagging][8].
+The [infrastructure list][2] serves as a central view of all your infrastructure resources (hosts, containers, processes, etc.) and their associated metadata. 
+
+**Key capabilities:**
+
+- Investigate infrastructure performance.
+- Arrange, filter, and visualize hosts based on tags and metrics.
+- Inspect hosts to review their tags, performance, health, and more.
 
-## Host map
+Navigate to [**Infrastructure > Hosts**][3] in the app to get started. To learn more, read the [Infrastructure List documentation][2].
 
+## Host and container maps
+
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 {{< img src="getting_started/application/host_map_2024.png" alt="Host Map Overview" >}}
 
-The [host map][9] can be found under the Infrastructure menu. It offers the ability to:
+[Host and container maps][4] give you a visual overview of all your hosts and containers, color-coding them by key metrics like CPU usage so you can quickly spot issues.
+
+**Key capabilities**:
 
-- Quickly visualize your environment
-- Identify outliers
-- Detect usage patterns
-- Optimize resources
+- View your entire infrastructure at once as a visual map.
+- Color-code by a variety of metrics to help you spot performance issues, and filter and group by tags and metadata.
+- Drill down into individual hosts or containers to troubleshoot.
 
-See [Host Map][9] for more details.
+Navigate to [**Infrastructure > Host Map**][5] in the app to get started. To learn more, read the [Host and Container Maps documentation][4].
 
 ## Log Management
 
-[Datadog Log Management][5] lets you send and process every log produced by your applications and infrastructure. You can observe your logs in real-time using the Live Tail, without indexing them. You can ingest all of the logs from your applications and infrastructure, decide what to index dynamically with filters, and then store them in an archive.
+[Datadog Log Management][6] lets you send and process every log produced by your applications and infrastructure. You can observe your logs in real-time using the [Live Tail][7], without indexing them.
+
+**Key capabilities**:
+
+- Automatically collect logs from all services, applications, and platforms.
+- View and search logs in real time and filter by things like service, host, and error type.
+- Choose which logs to keep and for how long, reducing storage costs.
+
+Navigate to [Logs][8] in the app to get started. To learn more, read the [Log Management documentation][6].
 
 ## APM & Continuous Profiler
 
-[Datadog Application Performance Monitoring][6] (APM or tracing) provides you with deep insight into your application's performance—from automatically generated dashboards for monitoring key metrics, like request volume and latency, to detailed traces of individual requests—side by side with your logs and infrastructure monitoring. When a request is made to an application, Datadog can see the traces across a distributed system, and show you systematic data about precisely what is happening to this request.
+[Datadog Application Performance Monitoring][9] (APM or tracing) provides you with deep insight into your application's performance side by side with your logs and infrastructure monitoring.
+
+**Key capabilities**:
+
+- Trace requests to an application from end to end across a distributed system.
+- See performance bottlenecks by visualizing time spent at each step of the request.
+- Configure your sampling rate to cut down on noise.
+- Automatically discover dependencies for an instrumented service, without having to directly instrument the dependency.
+
+Navigate to [APM][10] in the app to get started. To learn more, read the [APM documentation][9]
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 ## RUM & Session Replay
 
-Datadog [Real User Monitoring][18] (RUM) allows you to visualize and analyze real-time user activities and experiences. With [Session Replay][19], you can capture and view the web browsing sessions of your users to better understand their behavior. In the RUM Explorer, you can not only visualize load times, frontend errors, and page dependencies, but also you can correlate business and application metrics to troubleshoot issues with application, infrastructure, and business metrics in one dashboard.
+Datadog [Real User Monitoring][11] (RUM) allows you to visualize and analyze real-time user activities and experiences. With [Session Replay][12], you can capture and view the web browsing sessions of your users to better understand their behavior.
+
+**Key capabilities**:
+- Visualize load times, frontend errors, and resources for every user session.
+- Filter and analyze data using custom attributes.
+- Unify frontend and backend metrics in one view for faster troubleshooting.
+
+Navigate to the [RUM explorer][13] in the app to get started. To learn more, read the [RUM documentation][11]
 
 ## Synthetic Monitoring
 
-Datadog [Synthetic Monitoring][22] allow you to create and run API and browser tests that proactively simulate user transactions on your applications and monitor all internal and external network endpoints across your system's layers. You can detect errors, identify regressions, and automate rollbacks to prevent issues from surfacing in production.
+Datadog [Synthetic Monitoring][14] allows you to create and run API, browser, and mobile tests that proactively simulate user transactions on your applications. These tests monitor all internal and external network endpoints across your system's layers. 
+
+**Key capabilities**:
+
+- Test business-critical API endpoints and user journeys.
+- Detect errors, identify regressions, and automate rollbacks to prevent issues from surfacing in production.
+- Find and alert on performance issues for users in various locations.
+
+Navigate to [Synthetic Monitoring & Testing][15] in the app to get started. To learn more, read the [Synthetic Monitoring documentation][14].
 
 ## Integrations
 
+Use Datadog's {{< translate key="integration_count" >}} [integrations][16] to bring together all of the metrics and logs from your infrastructure and gain insights into your entire observability system.
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 {{< img src="getting_started/application/integrations-2024.png" alt="Integrations" >}}
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+
+**Key capabilities**:
 
-- Datadog has over {{< translate key="integration_count" >}} integrations [officially listed][2].
-- Custom integrations are available through the [Datadog API][3].
-- The Agent is [open source][4].
+- Available integrations cover cloud technologies, incident response, data layers, security, AI, and more.
+- Build your own integration using the [developer documentation][17].
 - After integrations have been configured, all data is treated the same throughout Datadog, whether it is living in a data center or in an online service.
 
+Navigate to [Integrations][18] in the app to get started, or browse the list of integrations in the [documentation][19].
+
 ## Dashboards
 
-[Dashboards][12] contain graphs with real-time performance metrics.
+[Dashboards][20] contain graphs with real-time performance metrics, unifying your view of data across metrics, logs, traces, and more.
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+
+**Key capabilities**:
+
+- Start with out-of-the-box dashboards or build your own to suit your specific questions.
+- Customize dashboards with drag-and-drop widgets, custom queries, and flexible layouts.
+- Combine multiple data types (metrics, logs, APM, RUM, etc.) in one place and view data in real time.
+- Annotate your graphs with comments or events for your team's context.
 
-- Synchronous mousing across all graphs in a [screenboard][13].
-- Vertical bars are events. They put a metric into context.
-- Click and drag on a graph to zoom in on a particular time frame.
-- As you hover over the graph, the Event Stream moves with you.
-- Display by zone, host, or total usage.
-- Datadog exposes a JSON editor for the graph, allowing for [arithmetic][14] and [functions][15] to be applied to metrics.
-- Share a graph snapshot that appears in the stream.
-- Graphs can be embedded in an iframe. This enables you to give a third party access to a live graph without also giving access to your data or any other information.
+Navigate to the [Dashboard List][21] in the app to get started. To learn more, read the [Dashboards documentation][20].
 
 ## Monitors
 
-[Monitors][16] provide alerts and notifications based on metric thresholds, integration availability, network endpoints, and more.
+[Monitors][22] provide alerts and notifications based on metric thresholds, integration availability, network endpoints, and more.
 
-- Use any metric reporting to Datadog
-- Set up multi alerts by device, host, and more
-- Use `@` in alert messages to direct notifications to the right people
-- Schedule downtimes to suppress notifications for system shutdowns, offline maintenance, and more
+- Create monitors using any metric reporting to Datadog.
+- Build complex alerting logic using multiple trigger conditions.
+- Send alerts to Slack, email, PagerDuty, and more, and use `@` in alert messages to direct notifications to the right people.
+- Schedule downtimes to suppress notifications for system shutdowns, offline maintenance, and more.
 
 ## Further Reading
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 [1]: https://app.datadoghq.com
-[2]: http://www.datadoghq.com/integrations
-[3]: /api/
-[4]: https://github.com/DataDog/datadog-agent
-[5]: /logs/
-[6]: /tracing/
-[7]: /infrastructure/
-[8]: /getting_started/tagging/
-[9]: /infrastructure/hostmap/
-[12]: /dashboards/
-[13]: /dashboards/#screenboards
-[14]: /dashboards/functions/arithmetic/
-[15]: /dashboards/functions/
-[16]: /monitors/
-[18]: /real_user_monitoring/
-[19]: /real_user_monitoring/session_replay/browser/
-[22]: /synthetics/
+[2]: /infrastructure/list/
+[3]: https://app.datadoghq.com/infrastructure
+[4]: /infrastructure/hostmap/
+[5]: https://app.datadoghq.com/infrastructure/map
+[6]: /logs/
+[7]: /logs/explorer/live_tail/
+[8]: https://app.datadoghq.com/logs
+[9]: /tracing/
+[10]: https://app.datadoghq.com/apm/home
+[11]: /real_user_monitoring/
+[12]: /real_user_monitoring/session_replay/browser/
+[13]: https://app.datadoghq.com/rum/sessions
+[14]: /synthetics/
+[15]: https://app.datadoghq.com/synthetics/tests
+[16]: https://www.datadoghq.com/product/platform/integrations/
+[17]: /developers/integrations/
+[18]: https://app.datadoghq.com/integrations
+[19]: /integrations/
+[20]: /dashboards/
+[21]: https://app.datadoghq.com/dashboard/lists
+[22]: /monitors/