Datadog

This feature was introduced in Unleash v4.0.0.

The Datadog integration allows Unleash to post Updates to Datadog when a feature flag is updated. To set up this integration, you need to set up a webhook connector for your channel. You can follow Submitting events to Datadog on how to do that.

The Datadog integration will perform a single retry if the HTTP POST against the Datadog Webhook URL fails (either a 50x or network error). Duplicate events may happen, and you should never assume events always comes in order.

Configuration

Events

You can choose to trigger updates for the following events:

• feature-created
• feature-updated (*)
• feature-metadata-updated
• feature-project-change
• feature-archived
• feature-revived
• feature-strategy-update
• feature-strategy-add
• feature-strategy-remove
• feature-stale-on
• feature-stale-off
• feature-environment-enabled
• feature-environment-disabled
• feature-environment-variants-updated
• feature-potentially-stale-on

*) Deprecated, and will not be used after transition to environments in Unleash v4.3

Parameters

Unleash Datadog integration takes the following parameters.

• Datadog Events URL - This is an optional property. The default URL is https://api.datadoghq.com/api/v1/events. If you are not not using the US1 Datadog site, you'll need to change this. Some instances and their URLs are:
  • EU: https://app.datadoghq.eu/api/v1/events
  • US1: https://app.datadoghq.com/api/v1/events
  • US3: https://us3.datadoghq.com/api/v1/events
  • US1-FED: https://app.ddog-gov.com/api/v1/events

• Datadog API key - This is a required property. The API key to use to authenticate with Datadog.

• Datadog Source Type Name - This is an optional property. Sets source_type_name parameter to be included in Datadog events. List of valid api source values

• Extra HTTP Headers - This is an optional property. Used to set the additional headers when Unleash communicates with Datadog.

Example:

{
  "SOME_CUSTOM_HTTP_HEADER": "SOME_VALUE",
  "SOME_OTHER_CUSTOM_HTTP_HEADER": "SOME_OTHER_VALUE"
}

Body template availability

The body template property is available from Unleash 5.6 onwards.

• Body template - This is an optional property. The template is used to override the body template used by Unleash when performing the HTTP POST. You can format your message using a Mustache template. Refer to the Unleash event types reference to find out which event properties you have access to in the template.

Example:

{
  "event": "{{event.type}}",
  "createdBy": "{{event.createdBy}}",
  "featureToggle": "{{event.data.name}}",
  "timestamp": "{{event.data.createdAt}}"
}

If you don't specify anything Unleash will send a formatted markdown body.

Example:

username created feature flag (featurename)[http://your.url/projects/projectname/features/featurename] in project *projectname*

Tags

Datadog's incoming webhooks are app specific. You will be able to create multiple integrations to support messaging on different apps.