Api first POC

Author: kodexp

.gitignore

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-*.pyc
 *~
-*pyo
+*.py[cod]
+*.pyc
+*.pyo
+
+__pycache__
+dist
+sdist
+*.so
+pip-log.txt
+.DS_Store
+*.egg
+*.egg-info
+
+# Unit test / coverage reports
+.coverage
+.tox
+nosetests.xml
+
+# PyCharm / IntelliJ
+*.iml
+.idea
+*.ipr
+
+# Eclipse
+.project
+.pydevproject
+OldWorks
+MANIFEST
+logs
+zprivate
+scratch*
+nohup*

datadog/events_generator.py

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 __author__ = 'fzhang'
 # Configure the module according to your needs
-from datadog import initialize
+import os, sys
+import time
 
-options = {
-     'api_key':'1d563c78bee1119c899f8084bc4d57d6',
-     'app_key':'d125ef1bf2cc3d65fd28aed4a53dc4b6a7be116a'
-}
 
-initialize(**options)
+def get_last_file_mtime():
+    """
+    get the latest file in a dir/list and return its mtime in epochseconds
+    :return:epochseconds
+    """
+    return time.time()
 
- # Use Datadog REST API client
-from datadog import api
-import os,  sys
 
-hostname= os.uname()[1]
-runuser= os.environ['USER']
+def main():
+    from datadog import initialize
+    from datadog import api  # Use Datadog REST API client
 
+    options = {
+        'api_key': '1d563',
+        'app_key': 'd125e'
+    }
 
-title = "Event generated by Python code: " + sys.argv[0]
-text = 'From host= %s runuser=%s' %(hostname, runuser)
-tags = ['version:1', 'PythonApp']
+    initialize(**options)
 
-api.Event.create(title=title, text=text, tags=tags)
+    hostname = os.uname()[1]
+    runuser = os.environ['USER']
 
+    title = "Event generated by Python code: " + sys.argv[0]
+    text = 'From host= %s runuser=%s' % (hostname, runuser)
+    tags = ['version:1', 'PythonApp']
+
+    api.Event.create(title=title, text=text, tags=tags)
+
+if __name__=="__main__":
+
+    THRESHOLD=2*60*60
+
+    lastfile_mtime=get_last_file_mtime()
+
+    time.sleep(10)
+
+    now=time.time()
+
+
+
+    print now
+
+    difftime= now- lastfile_mtime
+
+    print difftime
+
+    if difftime>THRESHOLD:
+        main()