Tools
dashboards-using-metrics
Returns the IDs of any screenboards or timeboards in which the given regexp pattern is used in the definition.
- Defaults to no regular expression (
.will be a period) -- use--regexto enable regex matching) - Verbose mode will also print the query found for each dashboard
Usage: ./dashboards-using-metrics.rb [options] <metric>
Example: ./dashboards-using-metrics.rb 'system.load.1'
-v, --[no-]verbose Run verbosely
-c, --[no-]color Colorize output
-d, --delay SECS Delay between requests (default: 0.5)
--retries NUM Number of retry attempts (default: 2)
--config FILE Specify config file
-r, --[no-]regex Input is a regular expression (don't quote)
get-downtime.rb
Get information about a given downtime:
Usage: ./get-downtime.rb [options]
-v, --[no-]verbose Run verbosely
-c, --[no-]color Colorize output
-d, --delay SECS Delay between requests (default: 0.5)
-r, --retries NUM Number of retry attempts (default: 2)
--config FILE Specify config file
monitors-using-metrics
Returns the IDs of any monitors in which the given regexp pattern is used in the query.
- Defaults to no regular expression (
.will be a period) -- use--regexto enable regex matching) - Verbose mode will also print the query found for each dashboard
Usage: ./monitors-using-metrics.rb [options] <metric>
Example: ./monitors-using-metrics.rb 'system.load.1'
-v, --[no-]verbose Run verbosely
-c, --[no-]color Colorize output
-d, --delay SECS Delay between requests (default: 0.5)
--retries NUM Number of retry attempts (default: 2)
--config FILE Specify config file
-r, --[no-]regex Input is a regular expression (don't quote)
query-metrics
Runs a query and returns the data points that would be charted.
- See Chronic's docs for date/time formats supported by
--fromand--to
Usage: ./query-metrics.rb [options] <query>
Example: ./query-metrics.rb 'avg:system.load.1{*}'
-v, --[no-]verbose Run verbosely
-c, --[no-]color Colorize output
-d, --delay SECS Delay between requests (default: 0.5)
-r, --retries NUM Number of retry attempts (default: 2)
--config FILE Specify config file
-f, --from SPEC From date, which can be anything Chronic can parse (https://github.com/mojombo/chronic). Defaults to 30m ago
-t, --to SPEC To date, which can be anything Chronic can parse (https://github.com/mojombo/chronic). Defaults to now
-j, --json Output JSON instead of text
Configuration
Create a file ~/.datadog.yaml and make it look like the following:
---
api_key: xxx
app_key: xxx
templates:
dashboard: 'http://url/dash/%{id}'
screenboard: 'http://url/screen/%{id}'
monitor: 'http://url/monitors#%{id}'The templates are optional and default to just printing the id.