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datadog_metrics

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datadog_metrics

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  • Version: 3.0.0
  • Released on: 2016-09-09
  • Changelog
  • Compatible: 5.1.1.1, 5.0.0, 2.4.1, 2.4.0, 2.3.4

This plugin does not ship with Logstash by default, but it is easy to install by running bin/logstash-plugin install logstash-output-datadog_metrics.

This output lets you send metrics to DataDogHQ based on Logstash events. Default queue_size and timeframe are low in order to provide near realtime alerting. If you do not use Datadog for alerting, consider raising these thresholds.

 

Synopsis

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This plugin supports the following configuration options:

Required configuration options:

datadog_metrics {
    api_key => ...
}

Available configuration options:

Setting Input type Required Default value

api_key

string

Yes

codec

codec

No

"plain"

dd_tags

array

No

device

string

No

"%{metric_device}"

enable_metric

boolean

No

true

host

string

No

"%{host}"

id

string

No

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

<<,>>

No

1

Details

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api_key

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  • 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

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.

dd_tags

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  • 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.

device

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

The name of the device that produced the metric.

enable_metric

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  • Value type is boolean
  • Default value is true

Disable or enable metric logging for this specific plugin instance by default we record all the metrics we can, but you can disable metrics collection for a specific plugin.

host

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

The name of the host that produced the metric.

id

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

Add a unique ID to the plugin instance, this ID is used for tracking information for a specific configuration of the plugin.

output {
 stdout {
   id => "ABC"
 }
}

If you don’t explicitely set this variable Logstash will generate a unique name.

metric_name

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

The name of the time series.

metric_type

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

The type of the metric.

metric_value

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

The value.

queue_size

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  • Value type is number
  • Default value is 10

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

timeframe

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  • Value type is number
  • Default value is 10

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

workers

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  • Value type is string
  • Default value is 1

TODO remove this in Logstash 6.0 when we no longer support the :legacy type This is hacky, but it can only be herne

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