Datadog

Introduction

Papertrail can update a Datadog dashboard displaying the number of log messages matching a search alert.

Follow the steps in Alerts.

From Datadog’s APIs tab, click the Create API Key button under the “API Keys” section then copy the new key.

In Papertrail, attach a new Datadog alert to a saved search, then:

Once the metric appears in Datadog, it needs a few settings adjusted to be visualized with the expected values.

When setting up a Timeseries chart of the metric, under Choose metrics and events:

as shown in this screenshot:

The rollup period is configurable; typically, (default) or 60 will most closely match what Papertrail sends each minute.