Overview

Collect custom metrics from your application with a few clicks and send it to Datadog. No need to write code, redeploy or restart your app.

• Enhance monitoring and expedite production debugging with Rookout's on-demand data collection
• Collect custom metrics ad-hoc from Rookout without the need for new instrumentation

Note: Since this integration enables you to collect custom metrics, there may be billing implications based on the number of custom metrics collected. More information on custom metrics can be found here.

Setup

Installation

Rookout sends data to Datadog via the DogStatsD service available from the Datadog Agent.

1. Install the Datadog Agent and Rookout

2. Log into Rookout's webapp

3. In the right panel (Rules) click on the menu button

   

4. Click on Create new template in order to edit a new rule template

   

5. Copy the Datadog Custom Metric rule template available here into the editor and replace the default rule template

   

6. Click the save icon to save the template

   

7. Add the newly created rule to any application as you would normally

Configuration

You can configure the rule to use specific actions, every rule should contain these attributes in the processing.operations object:

{
    "name": "dogstatsd",
    "action": "<ACTION>",
    "metric": "<METRIC_NAME>",
    "target": {
      "host": "<HOST_NAME>",
      "port": 8125
    }
}

Depending on the actions, it needs different additional attributes:

| Datadog Action |  Attributes |
|----------------|-------------|
|    increment   | value       |
|    decrement   | value       |
|      event     | title, text |
|      gauge     | value       |
|    histogram   | value       |
|     timing     | value       |
|  distribution  | value       |

For more information about these actions you can see Dogstatsd documentation

Any attribute must be formatted the following way to be accepted by our rule:

"value": {
    "name": "calc",
    "path": "123"
}

"value": {
    "name": "calc",
    "path": "\"string\""
}

Data Collected

You can collect custom metrics and events by creating a Datadog output in your Rookout rule. Some commonly used patterns:

• Count the number of a times a method is invoked (increment)
• Document process started in DataDog (event)
• Record batch sizes (histogram)

Troubleshooting

If you have any questions, contact us at support@rookout.com.