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Datadog

The Datadog backend is ingest-only, and sends events to the Datadog HTTP API.

See the Datadog HTTP API documentation for details on how the API handles events.

Behaviour and configurations​

Configuration​

The following values are required when creating a webhook backend:

  • api_key: (string, required) a API Key generated from the Datadog dashboard, specific for that region.
  • region: (string, required) specific region API to send the events to. Corresponds to the Datadog sites (for example US5)

Implementation Details​

Implementation is based on the webhook backend.

The entire event body will be set to the data key of the events sent to Datadog.

Events will be gzipped and batch with a maximum of 250 events per request. The service name of the source will be used as the ddservice. If not set, it will default to the source name.