Datadog Integration

Introduction

You can export metrics and operation logs of your Hasura Cloud project to your organisation’s Datadog dashboard. This can be configured on the integrations tab on the project’s setting page.

Note

Datadog Integration is only available for Hasura Cloud projects on the Standard (pay-as-you-go) tier and above.

Configure Datadog integration

Navigate to the integrations tab on project settings page to find Datadog integration.

Configure Datadog Integration

Select the Datadog API region and enter the Datadog API key (can be retrieved by navigating to Datadog’s settings page by clicking the Get API Key link), host, service name and tags to associate with exported logs and metrics.

Field Description
Region If you are in the Datadog EU site (app.datadoghq.eu), the Region should be EU; otherwise, it should be US.
API Key API keys are unique to your organization. An API key is required by the Datadog Agent to submit metrics and events to Datadog. You can get the API key from here if you are in Datadog US region and here if you’re in Datadog EU region.
Host The name of the originating host of the log and metrics.
Tags Tags associated with your logs and metrics. Default tags project_id and project_name are exported with all logs and metrics. A source tag hasura-cloud-metrics is added to all exported logs.
Service Name The name of the application or service generating the log events.
Configure Datadog Integration

After adding appropriate values, click Save.

Checking the status of the integration

The green/red dot signifies the status of the integration. Green signifies successful exporting of logs to datadog. When logs are successfully exported, Last Exported is continuously updated, indicating the timestamp of the last log line successfully exported to your Datadog dashboard.

Datadog Integration successfully configured

In case there is an error while exporting logs to datadog, the dot is red and the HTTP status code of the error is displayed right below it.

Datadog Integration successfully configured

View logs

The logs can be viewed in your Datadog dashboard, under the Logs tab. To navigate to the same, click View Logs.

Datadog Integration successfully configured Logs successfully exported to Datadog

To view only logs exported by Hasura Cloud, filter your logs using host and/or tags you configured with this integration.

Note

Datadog allows ingestion of logs with maximum size 256kB for a single log. If a log exceeds this limit, Datadog will truncate the log at 256kB.

View metrics

The integration exports the following five metrics to your Datadog dashboard:

Metric Exported Metric Name in Datadog
Average number of requests average_requests_per_minute
Average request execution time average_execution_time
Success rate of requests success_rate
Active subscriptions active_subscriptions
Number of websockets open websockets_open

Non zero values of all the above metrics are exported over a one minute time interval. Each metric name is prefixed with hasura_cloud.

Graphs for all the above metrics can be viewed in your Datadog dashboard, under the Metrics tab. To navigate to the same, click View Metrics.

Datadog Integration successfully configured

Select the graphs you want to view from the metrics explorer. Alternatively, select the host you configured with this integration to see all the graphs corresponding to metrics exported by Hasura Cloud.

Metrics successfully exported to Datadog