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datadog

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Synopsis

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

Details

 

alert_type

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

Alert type

api_key

  • 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

  • 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

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

Date Happened

dd_tags

  • 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

exclude_tags (DEPRECATED)

  • DEPRECATED WARNING: This configuration item is deprecated and may not be available in future versions.
  • Value type is array
  • Default value is []

Only handle events without any of these tags. Note this check is additional to type and tags.

priority

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

Priority

source_type_name

  • 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

tags (DEPRECATED)

  • DEPRECATED WARNING: This configuration item is deprecated and may not be available in future versions.
  • Value type is array
  • Default value is []

Only handle events with all of these tags. Note that if you specify a type, the event must also match that type. Optional.

text

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

Text

title

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

Title

type (DEPRECATED)

  • DEPRECATED WARNING: This configuration item is deprecated and may not be available in future versions.
  • Value type is string
  • Default value is ""

The type to act on. If a type is given, then this output will only act on messages with the same type. See any input plugin’s type attribute for more. Optional.

workers

  • 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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