Datadog integration

What is Datadog?

Datadog is a cloud-based monitoring and analytics platform that helps organizations gain insights into the performance and health of their applications and infrastructure, catering to the needs of security teams regardless of the tech stack they employ.

By integrating Datadog with Buddy, you can take advantage of workflow automation to monitor your CI/CD pipelines and identify security threats, which allows you to react quickly in case of any issues.

Once the integration is added, you can expand your pipeline by adding the Datadog Service Check action. The action lets you create custom checks to monitor specific aspects of your application in an intuitive way.

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Setting up Datadog integration

  1. To get started, navigate to the Integrations tab and click New integration.

  2. Look up and click Datadog (it can be found in the Monitoring tab):

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  1. The configuration window will show up:

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Here you have to provide:

  • integration name
  • API key
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You can adjust the privacy settings of your integration (i.e. who can use it and where) in the Sharing tab.
  1. Once done, simply click the New integration button to add it to your workspace.

Obtaining Datadog API key

  1. Navigate to https://app.datadoghq.com/organization-settings/api-keys.

  2. Click New Key and provide a name for your key:

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  1. Paste the key into the API key field of the Datadog integration.
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Last modified on Sep 23, 2024