Action: API Request

Datadog Operation

The API Request action sends a custom API request to the Datadog platform.

Example User Story

I want to send an API request to Datadog to retrieve monitoring metrics so that I can analyze system performance.

Fields

Field Name	Field Type	Required
endpoint	String	Yes
method	String	Yes
body	String	No
headers	String	No

Related Connections

Datadog

Related Automations

Example link

Code (Apache v2.0): Operation

{
  "handle": "api-request",
  "state": "inDev",
  "meta": {
    "short": "API Request",
    "description": "Send an API request to Datadog"
  },
  "input": [
    {
      "name": "endpoint",
      "type": "String",
      "required": true,
      "meta": {
        "description": "The Datadog API endpoint to call"
      }
    },
    {
      "name": "method",
      "type": "String",
      "required": true,
      "meta": {
        "description": "The HTTP method to use (GET, POST, PUT, PATCH, DELETE)"
      }
    },
    {
      "name": "body",
      "type": "String",
      "required": false,
      "meta": {
        "description": "The request body as a JSON string"
      }
    },
    {
      "name": "headers",
      "type": "String",
      "required": false,
      "meta": {
        "description": "Additional headers as a JSON string"
      }
    }
  ],
  "output": [
    {
      "name": "response",
      "type": "String",
      "selector": ["body"],
      "meta": {
        "description": "The response body from the API request"
      }
    },
    {
      "name": "statusCode",
      "type": "Integer",
      "selector": ["status"],
      "meta": {
        "description": "The HTTP status code from the API request"
      }
    }
  ],
  "steps": [
    {
      "type": "http",
      "http": {
        "method": "{{method}}",
        "path": "{{endpoint}}",
        "headers": {
          "Content-Type": "application/json",
          "{{headers}}": "{{headers}}"
        },
        "bodyTemplate": {
          "value": "{{body}}"
        }
      }
    }
  ]
}