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Datadog Setup Guide

Prerequisites

Make sure you have a Datadog account.

Setup Guide

Select Data Center

  1. If your Datadog site URL is https://app.datadoghq.eu, select EU.
  2. If your Datadog site URL is https://app.datadoghq.com, select US1.
  3. If your Datadog site URL is https://us3.datadoghq.com, select US3.
  4. If your Datadog site URL is https://us5.datadoghq.com, select US5.
  5. If your Datadog site URL is https://app.ddog-gov.com, select US1-FED.
  6. If your Datadog site URL is https://ap1.datadoghq.com, select AP1 (Japan).

Add an Application + API Key

  1. Log in to your Datadog account.
  2. Open the site and locate Organization Settings --> Application Keys and API Keys.
  3. Create a new Application and API keys or choose any exisiting keys.
  4. Enter the keys inside the correct input fields.

Additional steps

  1. Enter Asset-Name.
  2. (Optional) Enter a description of the source.
  3. (Optional) Set Ingestion Start Date to limit backfill to records on or after a specific date.
  4. (Optional) Click check connection to make sure you have inputed the api + application keys correctly and chose the right host.
  5. Click connect!

Supported Streams

  • Containers
  • Container_images
  • Hosts
  • Logs
  • Span_metrics

Ingestion Start Date behavior

When set, Ingestion Start Date is used as a lower bound only for streams that support time-based filtering.

  • Supported by: Logs
  • Not currently supported by: Containers, Container_images, Hosts, Span_metrics