datadog_dashboards

A quick way to generate helpful, pre-canned Datadog dashboards for Cloudwatch.

Setup

• Run npm install -g datadog_dashboards
• Edit dashboards.js with your dashboard changes. See this package's dashboards.example.js for a starter.

Uploading new dashboards

• Run datadog_dashboards
• Done

Alternatively, you can specify a dashboard file with the -d setting.

For example

$ datadog_dashboards -d <dashboard_file>

Customization

By default, the Datadog dashboard creator will iterate through the dashboardsByEnvironment exposed in the dashboard.js file and run the generateEnvironmentDashboard function that has a set of default dashboards depending on the configurations in the dashboardsByEnvironment.

Your dashboards.js file should have at least the dashboardsByEnvironment object exported.

See the dashboards.examples.js as an example dashboard configuration.

Environment variables

Datadog Dashboard Creator uses dotenv to allow for a .env file to have locally defined environment variables.

If you want to define these, they can bypass the prompts:

DATADOG_API_API_KEY=<datadog_api_key>
DATADOG_API_APP_KEY=<datadog_app_key>
DATADOG_DASHBOARD_JS=dashboards