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datadogedit

Note

This is a community-maintained plugin! It does not ship with Logstash by default, but it is easy to install by running bin/logstash-plugin install logstash-output-datadog.

 

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This plugin supports the following configuration options:

Required configuration options:

datadog {
    api_key => ...
}

Available configuration options:

Setting Input typeRequiredDefault value

alert_type

string, one of ["info", "error", "warning", "success"]

No

api_key

string

Yes

codec

codec

No

"plain"

date_happened

string

No

dd_tags

array

No

priority

string, one of ["normal", "low"]

No

source_type_name

string, one of ["nagios", "hudson", "jenkins", "user", "my apps", "feed", "chef", "puppet", "git", "bitbucket", "fabric", "capistrano"]

No

"my apps"

text

string

No

"%{message}"

title

string

No

"Logstash event for %{host}"

workers

number

No

1

Detailsedit

 

alert_typeedit

  • Value can be any of: info, error, warning, success
  • There is no default value for this setting.

Alert type

api_keyedit

  • This is a required setting.
  • Value type is string
  • There is no default value for this setting.

This output lets you send events (for now. soon metrics) to DataDogHQ based on Logstash events

Note that since Logstash maintains no state these will be one-shot events

Your DatadogHQ API key

codecedit

  • Value type is codec
  • Default value is "plain"

The codec used for output data. Output codecs are a convenient method for encoding your data before it leaves the output, without needing a separate filter in your Logstash pipeline.

date_happenededit

  • Value type is string
  • There is no default value for this setting.

Date Happened

dd_tagsedit

  • Value type is array
  • There is no default value for this setting.

Tags Set any custom tags for this event Default are the Logstash tags if any

priorityedit

  • Value can be any of: normal, low
  • There is no default value for this setting.

Priority

source_type_nameedit

  • Value can be any of: nagios, hudson, jenkins, user, my apps, feed, chef, puppet, git, bitbucket, fabric, capistrano
  • Default value is "my apps"

Source type name

textedit

  • Value type is string
  • Default value is "%{message}"

Text

titleedit

  • Value type is string
  • Default value is "Logstash event for %{host}"

Title

workersedit

  • Value type is number
  • Default value is 1

The number of workers to use for this output. Note that this setting may not be useful for all outputs.

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