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datadog_metricsedit

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_metrics.

 

Synopsisedit

This plugin supports the following configuration options:

Required configuration options:

datadog_metrics {
    api_key => ...
}

Available configuration options:

Setting Input typeRequiredDefault value

api_key

string

Yes

codec

codec

No

"plain"

dd_tags

array

No

device

string

No

"%{metric_device}"

host

string

No

"%{host}"

metric_name

string

No

"%{metric_name}"

metric_type

string, one of ["gauge", "counter", "%{metric_type}"]

No

"%{metric_type}"

metric_value

<<,>>

No

"%{metric_value}"

queue_size

number

No

10

timeframe

number

No

10

workers

number

No

1

Detailsedit

 

api_keyedit

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

Your DatadogHQ API key. https://app.datadoghq.com/account/settings#api

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.

dd_tagsedit

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

Set any custom tags for this event, default are the Logstash tags if any.

deviceedit

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

The name of the device that produced the metric.

hostedit

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

The name of the host that produced the metric.

metric_nameedit

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

The name of the time series.

metric_typeedit

  • Value can be any of: gauge, counter, %{metric_type}
  • Default value is "%{metric_type}"

The type of the metric.

metric_valueedit

<li> Value type is <<string,string>>
* Default value is `"%{metric_value}"`

The value.

queue_sizeedit

  • Value type is number
  • Default value is 10

How many events to queue before flushing to Datadog prior to schedule set in @timeframe

timeframeedit

  • Value type is number
  • Default value is 10

How often (in seconds) to flush queued events to Datadog

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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