datadog_monitor – Manages Datadog monitors

New in version 2.0.

Synopsis

Requirements

The below requirements are needed on the host that executes this module.

  • datadog

Parameters

Parameter Choices/Defaults Comments
api_key
string / required
Your Datadog API key.
app_key
string / required
Your Datadog app key.
escalation_message
string
A message to include with a re-notification. Supports the '@username' notification we allow elsewhere.
Not applicable if renotify_interval=None.
evaluation_delay
string
added in 2.7
Time to delay evaluation (in seconds).
Effective for sparse values.
id
string
added in 2.3
The ID of the alert.
If set, will be used instead of the name to locate the alert.
locked
boolean
added in 2.2
    Choices:
  • no ←
  • yes
Whether changes to this monitor should be restricted to the creator or admins.
message
string
A message to include with notifications for this monitor.
Email notifications can be sent to specific users by using the same '@username' notation as events.
Monitor message template variables can be accessed by using double square brackets, i.e '[[' and ']]'.
name
string / required
The name of the alert.
new_host_delay
string
added in 2.4
A positive integer representing the number of seconds to wait before evaluating the monitor for new hosts.
This gives the host time to fully initialize.
no_data_timeframe
string
Default:
"2x timeframe for metric, 2 minutes for service"
The number of minutes before a monitor will notify when data stops reporting.
Must be at least 2x the monitor timeframe for metric alerts or 2 minutes for service checks.
notify_audit
boolean
    Choices:
  • no ←
  • yes
Whether tagged users will be notified on changes to this monitor.
notify_no_data
boolean
    Choices:
  • no ←
  • yes
Whether this monitor will notify when data stops reporting.
query
string
The monitor query to notify on.
Syntax varies depending on what type of monitor you are creating.
renotify_interval
string
The number of minutes after the last notification before a monitor will re-notify on the current status.
It will only re-notify if it is not resolved.
require_full_window
boolean
added in 2.3
    Choices:
  • no
  • yes
Whether this monitor needs a full window of data before it gets evaluated.
We highly recommend you set this to False for sparse metrics, otherwise some evaluations will be skipped.
silenced
-
Default:
""
Dictionary of scopes to silence, with timestamps or None.
Each scope will be muted until the given POSIX timestamp or forever if the value is None.
state
string / required
    Choices:
  • present
  • absent
  • mute
  • unmute
The designated state of the monitor.
tags
list
added in 2.2
A list of tags to associate with your monitor when creating or updating.
This can help you categorize and filter monitors.
thresholds
-
Default:
{"critical": 1, "ok": 1, "warning": 1}
A dictionary of thresholds by status.
Only available for service checks and metric alerts.
Because each of them can have multiple thresholds, we do not define them directly in the query.
timeout_h
string
The number of hours of the monitor not reporting data before it will automatically resolve from a triggered state.
type
string
    Choices:
  • metric alert
  • service check
  • event alert
The type of the monitor.

Examples

# Create a metric monitor
- datadog_monitor:
    type: "metric alert"
    name: "Test monitor"
    state: "present"
    query: "datadog.agent.up.over('host:host1').last(2).count_by_status()"
    message: "Host [[host.name]] with IP [[host.ip]] is failing to report to datadog."
    api_key: "9775a026f1ca7d1c6c5af9d94d9595a4"
    app_key: "87ce4a24b5553d2e482ea8a8500e71b8ad4554ff"

# Deletes a monitor
- datadog_monitor:
    name: "Test monitor"
    state: "absent"
    api_key: "9775a026f1ca7d1c6c5af9d94d9595a4"
    app_key: "87ce4a24b5553d2e482ea8a8500e71b8ad4554ff"

# Mutes a monitor
- datadog_monitor:
    name: "Test monitor"
    state: "mute"
    silenced: '{"*":None}'
    api_key: "9775a026f1ca7d1c6c5af9d94d9595a4"
    app_key: "87ce4a24b5553d2e482ea8a8500e71b8ad4554ff"

# Unmutes a monitor
- datadog_monitor:
    name: "Test monitor"
    state: "unmute"
    api_key: "9775a026f1ca7d1c6c5af9d94d9595a4"
    app_key: "87ce4a24b5553d2e482ea8a8500e71b8ad4554ff"

Status

Authors

  • Sebastian Kornehl (@skornehl)

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