Basic tool information
Datadog is an analytics platform that can aggregate data from servers, databases, applications, tools and services into a unified view for monitoring.
Connect Catchpoint and Datadog to:
- Configure comprehensive alerts in your event stream
- Direct links to Analysis Charts in the Catchpoint Portal
- Alert Type tags for easy filtering
This document outlines the steps to integrate Catchpoint and Datadog using Catchpoint’s Alert Push API.
For more information, go to https://www.datadoghq.com andhttp://docs.datadoghq.com/integrations/catchpoint
Catchpoint Integration
Catchpoint’s Alert Push API allows Catchpoint to integrate with other tools by pushing data when a test triggers an alert. Any tool supporting Webhooks or providing a URL to POST data can be used. Alert Push API templates can be customized to fit a tool’s format and content-type using Macros. If a template needs modification, please contact Catchpoint Support. We are happy to assist you increating a template meeting your requirements. Below, you will find integration guide on setting upand customizing templates. These guides are standard workflows created by Catchpoint focused oncreating and confirming an API template to be consumed by this tool. Catchpoint does its best to ensure the relevance of these guides and will be happy to assist in implementing a guide as described.
Catchpoint - Datadog Integration Steps
Webtool Setup
- Log in into the Catchpoint Portal and go to Integrations.
- In the Webhook select AddURL>Alertwebhook.
- Enter the Datadog Endpoint URL. You will also need the Datadog API Key which can be created in the Datadog portal.
- Set Status to Active
- Select Template for Format
- Add a new template
- Enter the template Name e.g. "Datadog", and set the Format to JSON.
- Paste the following JSON template and then Save.
{
"title": "${TestName} [${TestId}] - ${switch(${notificationLevelId},'0','WARNING','1','CRITICAL','3','OK')}",
"text": "${TestName} - http://portal.catchpoint.com/ui/Content/Charts/Performance.aspx?tList=${testId}&uts=${ alertProcessingTimestampUtc}&z=&chartView=1",
"priority": "normal",
"tags": ["alertType:${Switch(${AlertTypeId},'0', 'Unknown','2', 'Byte Length','3','Content Match','4', 'Host Failure','7' , 'Timing','9', 'Test Failure', '10',Insight', '11','Javascript Failure', '12', 'Ping',13, 'Requests')}"],
"alert_type": "${switch(${notificationLevelId},'0','warning','1','error','3','success')
}",
"source_type_name": "catchpoint"
Catchpoint will now send any alerts directly to the Events stream in Datadog.
Alert Macro Index A full list of the Alert API Macros can be found at: