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# Action: New Metric Post

Datadog Operation

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<p align="center">The New Metric Post action submits a custom metric data point to the monitoring platform.</p>

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#### 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](/datadog/datadog.md)

### 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
            }
          ]
        }
      }
    }
  ]
}

```

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