dd-metric

Send a datadog metric via the datadog api.

Builds a CLI client

Installation

Download the appropriate binary from a release. Builds are available for Linux, OSX, and Windows in amd64 and arm64 arch.

Usage

Set your datadog API in your environment

export DD_API_KEY=yourapikey

dd-metric 0.1.0
Andrew Herrington <[email protected]>
Send a metric to datadog via the api

Uses the datadog API to send either a gauge, counter, or histogram to the datadog api Sends one
metric per invocation Requires DD_API_KEY to be set in the environment to function.

USAGE:
    dd-metric [OPTIONS] --name <NAME>

OPTIONS:
    -h, --help
            Print help information

    -n, --name <NAME>
            Name of the metric to send

    -o, --outputs <OUTPUTS>
            Optional places to output the metric to as a comma separated list of destinations. Valid
            destinations are: stdout, api

            [default: api]

    -t, --type <TYPE>
            Type of the metric to send

            [default: counter]

        --tags <TAGS>
            Optional tags to add to sent metric in the format key:value,key2:value2

            [default: ]

    -v, --value <VALUE>
            Metric value

            [default: 1]

    -V, --version
            Print version information

        --verbose
            Will print verbose output to stdout

Example

Send a counter metric with a value of 7 named test.test_counter

dd-metric --value 7 --name test.test_counter

Tag a histogram metric

dd-metric --value 22 --type histogram --name test.test_historgram --tags 'tag1:value1,tag2:value2'

Output only to stdout, no API calls. Good for testing

dd-metric --value 7 --name test.test_counter --outputs stdout
{"m":"test.test_counter","v":7,"e":1657943168,"t":[]}
counter test.test_counter sent to Datadog with value 7.0