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datadog

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datadog

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

Synopsis

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This plugin supports the following configuration options:

Required configuration options:

datadog {
    api_key => ...
}

Available configuration options:

Setting	Input type	Required	Default 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`

Details

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`alert_type`

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

Alert type

`api_key`

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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

`codec`

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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_happened`

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

Date Happened

`dd_tags`

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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

`priority`

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

Priority

`source_type_name`

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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

`text`

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

Text

`title`

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

Title

`workers`

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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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