Import metrics from Datadog
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Go to Organization Settings --> API Keys and click on New Key
Give the Key a name (e.g. ilert metrics import) and click on Copy Key and paste it somewhere. You will need this key later in ilert.
Go to Organization Settings --> Application Keys and click on New Key
Give the Key a name and copy and paste somewhere. You will need the application key later in ilert.
Go to Status pages (or Incident comms) --> Metric data sources and click on Create metric data source
Give the metrics data source a name (e.g. Datadog).
Select Datadog in Type dropdown list.
Select your Datadog region. You can identify your region by matching your Datadog website URL to the URL from the list.
Enter the API and Application keys from above and click on Create metric data source.
Find the metric you want to import to ilert, e.g. by opening a dashboard.
Click on Edit this widget
In the Edit view, chose the graph you want to import and click on the </> icon to display the metric query
Copy the metric query. You will need the query below in ilert.
Go to Status pages (or Incident comms) --> Metrics and click on Create metric
Select the Datadog metrics data source that you have created above and click on Next
On the next screen, enter a metric name, a display unit and paste the metric query from step 4 above. Click Save to preview your metric data.
Preview your metric. You can make changes to your query and reload the data from Datadog. Note that once you have created your metric, you will no longer be able to change the metric query.
Note that metrics in ilert are not dimensional. Therefore, only Datadog metrics without grouping can be imported. See the Datadog documentation on .
Here are the articles on how to connect Datadog and ilert:
