Datadog Builder

Build and manage datadog monitors.

• Free software: Apache Software License 2.0

Authentication

Authentication can be performed by the following envrionment variables:

Or a config yaml file containing the following:

api_key: <YOUR API KEY>
app_key: <YOUR APP KEY>
host_name:
api_host: https://app.datadoghq.com
statsd_host:
statsd_port:
statsd_use_default_route: False

Jobs File Format

The monitors are basically directly representative of the datadog api.

defaults:
  monitors:
    multi: true
    options:
      locked: true

monitors:
  - name: My monitor
    type: service check

    message: |
      Service is down. That's probably bad.

      {{#is_alert}}fix it{{/is_alert}}
      {{#is_alert_recovery}}fix it{{/is_alert_recovery}}

    query: '"process.up".over("host:myhost","process:service").last(3).count_by_status()'

    options:
      new_host_delay: 300
      notify_audit: false
      notify_no_data: false
      thresholds:
        critical: 1
        ok: 1
        warning: 1