Action: New Metric Post

Datadog Operation

The New Metric Post action submits a custom metric data point to the monitoring platform.

Example User Story

I want to post a new metric to Datadog so that I can monitor system performance in real-time.

Fields

Field Name	Field Type	Required
apiKey	String	Yes
appKey	String	Yes
metricName	String	Yes
metricValue	Float	Yes
timestamp	Integer	No
tags	String	No

Related Connections

Datadog

Related Automations

Example link

Code (Apache v2.0): Operation

{
  "handle": "new-metric-post",
  "state": "inDev",
  "meta": {
    "short": "Post New Metric",
    "description": "Posts a new metric to Datadog"
  },
  "input": [
    {
      "name": "apiKey",
      "type": "String",
      "required": true,
      "meta": {
        "description": "Datadog API key"
      }
    },
    {
      "name": "appKey",
      "type": "String",
      "required": true,
      "meta": {
        "description": "Datadog application key"
      }
    },
    {
      "name": "metricName",
      "type": "String",
      "required": true,
      "meta": {
        "description": "Name of the metric"
      }
    },
    {
      "name": "metricValue",
      "type": "Float",
      "required": true,
      "meta": {
        "description": "Value of the metric"
      }
    },
    {
      "name": "timestamp",
      "type": "Integer",
      "required": false,
      "meta": {
        "description": "POSIX timestamp of the metric"
      }
    },
    {
      "name": "tags",
      "type": "String",
      "required": false,
      "meta": {
        "description": "Comma-separated list of tags"
      }
    }
  ],
  "output": [
    {
      "name": "status",
      "type": "String",
      "selector": ["status"],
      "meta": {
        "description": "Status of the request"
      }
    },
    {
      "name": "response",
      "type": "String",
      "selector": ["body"],
      "meta": {
        "description": "Response body"
      }
    }
  ],
  "steps": [
    {
      "type": "http",
      "http": {
        "method": "POST",
        "path": "/api/v1/series",
        "headers": {
          "Content-Type": "application/json",
          "DD-API-KEY": "{{apiKey}}",
          "DD-APPLICATION-KEY": "{{appKey}}"
        },
        "bodyTemplate": {
          "value": "{\"series\":[{\"metric\":\"{{metricName}}\",\"points\":[[{{timestamp | default: \"now\" | date: \"%s\"}},{{metricValue}}]],\"tags\":[{{tags | split: \",\" | to_json}}]}]}",
          "placeholders": [
            {
              "name": "metricName",
              "type": "String",
              "description": "Name of the metric",
              "required": true
            },
            {
              "name": "metricValue",
              "type": "Float",
              "description": "Value of the metric",
              "required": true
            },
            {
              "name": "timestamp",
              "type": "Integer",
              "description": "POSIX timestamp of the metric",
              "required": false
            },
            {
              "name": "tags",
              "type": "String",
              "description": "Comma-separated list of tags",
              "required": false
            }
          ]
        }
      }
    }
  ]
}