Take informed action by connecting Datadog to InsightFinder’s Unified Intelligence Engine

Title :- Datadog Integration

Summary – InsightFinder can pull metric and event data from datadog and push predicted incidents to DataDog. Below documentation is a walk through of how to configure DataDog in InsightFinder.

Project Creation (Getting data from DataDog):-

1. Go to “Settings”->“System Settings”. Click on “Create New Project” or “Create Projects in Batch”.
2. Select “DataDog” from the list and click on “Create Project” on the next page.
3. Metric Project:
   1. Provide “API Key” and “Application Key” (The key need to be Not Scoped for us to get host information) from the DataDog account and click “Verify”.
   2. On the next page, select the Metrics you want to source
   3. You can also configure the metrics for KPI if required for your use case.
   4. Select Component name tag:
   5. Use Tag expression to select instance
   6. Select host or host name as instance name
   7. Then on the next page, you can type in the “Project Name” and “System Name” and click on Register.
   8. Once a project is successfully created, you will see a message like below.
   9. You can go to the “Metric Analysis” page and check the data coming in there in the line chart
4. Log/Event Project
   1. select Log/Event Project
      
   2. select Fields to Analyze:
      
   3. input instance key and Filter Query(Log Format: {tag}:{value}, Event Format: tags={tag}:{value});
      
   4. Select Component Name
      
   5. Then on the next page, you can type in the “Project Name” and “System Name” and click on Register.
      
   6. You can go to the “Log/Trace Analysis” page and check the data coming in there in the line chart
      
5. You are all set to receive DataDog integration with InsightFinder and start to use InsightFinder AI engine for Incident Investigation and Prediction.

Push alerts to DataDog (Sending notification to DataDog) :-

1. Go to “Settings”->“External Service Settings”. Click on “DataDog”.
2. Pop up will open up where you click on “Add New”.
   
3. Select the “System Name” from the list that you want to enable it for and provide API Key, App Key, App Id (Application Key ID in DataDog). Next section talks about how to retrieve that information from DataDog.
   
4. You are all set to send InsightFinder predicted incidents to DataDog.
5. You will start seeing incidents in the DataDog under Monitors -> Incidents. These will be under the DataDog service for which the keys were used to configure in InsightFinder.
   

Information required:-

1. Datadog API Key – You can to go below link in your account – https://app.datadoghq.com/organization-settings/api-keys
   Select “API Keys” on the left menu and create a “New Key”
2. Datadog Application Key and Key ID – You can to go below link in your account – https://app.datadoghq.com/organization-settings/application-keys
   Select “Application Keys” on the left menu and create a “New Key”