Service Checks

The service check endpoint allows you to post check statuses for use with monitors. Service check messages are limited to 500 characters. If a check is posted with a message containing more than 500 characters, only the first 500 characters are displayed.

Submit a Service Check

v1 (latest)

POST https://api.datadoghq.eu/api/v1/check_runhttps://api.ddog-gov.com/api/v1/check_runhttps://api.datadoghq.com/api/v1/check_runhttps://api.us3.datadoghq.com/api/v1/check_run

Overview

Submit a list of Service Checks.

Note: A valid API key is required.

Request

Body Data (required)

Service Check request body.

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Field

Type

Description

check

string

The check.

host_name

string

The host name correlated with the check.

message

string

Message containing check status.

status

enum

The status of a service check. Allowed enum values: 0,1,2,3

Response

Payload accepted

The payload accepted for intake.

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Field

Type

Description

status

string

The status of the intake payload.

{
  "status": "ok"
}

Bad Request

Error response object.

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Field

Type

Description

errors [required]

[string]

Array of errors returned by the API.

{
  "errors": [
    "Bad Request"
  ]
}

Authentication Error

Error response object.

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Field

Type

Description

errors [required]

[string]

Array of errors returned by the API.

{
  "errors": [
    "Bad Request"
  ]
}

Request timeout

Error response object.

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Field

Type

Description

errors [required]

[string]

Array of errors returned by the API.

{
  "errors": [
    "Bad Request"
  ]
}

Payload too large

Error response object.

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Field

Type

Description

errors [required]

[string]

Array of errors returned by the API.

{
  "errors": [
    "Bad Request"
  ]
}

Code Example

# Curl command
curl -X POST "https://api.datadoghq.eu"https://api.ddog-gov.com"https://api.datadoghq.com"https://api.us3.datadoghq.com/api/v1/check_run?api_key=${DD_CLIENT_API_KEY}" \
-H "Content-Type: application/json" \
-d @- << EOF
{
  "check": "app.ok",
  "host_name": "app.host1",
  "status": 0,
  "tags": [
    "environment:test"
  ]
}
EOF



           

from datadog import initialize, api
from datadog.api.constants import CheckStatus

options = {'api_key': '<DATADOG_API_KEY>',
           'app_key': '<DATADOG_APPLICATION_KEY>'}

initialize(**options)

check = 'app.ok'
host = 'app1'
status = CheckStatus.OK  # equals 0
tags = ['env:test']

api.ServiceCheck.check(check=check, host_name=host, status=status, message='Response: 200 OK', tags=tags)

Instructions

First install the library and its dependencies and then save the example to example.py and run following commands:

              export DD_SITE="https://api.datadoghq.euhttps://api.ddog-gov.comhttps://api.datadoghq.comhttps://api.us3.datadoghq.com"
python "example.py"

require 'rubygems'
require 'dogapi'

api_key = '<DATADOG_API_KEY>'
app_key = '<DATADOG_APPLICATION_KEY>'

dog = Dogapi::Client.new(api_key, app_key)

# submitting a check doesn't require an app_key
dog = Dogapi::Client.new(api_key)

dog.service_check('app.is_ok', 'app1', 0, :message => 'Response: 200 OK', :tags => ['env:test'])

Instructions

First install the library and its dependencies and then save the example to example.rb and run following commands:

              export DD_SITE="https://api.datadoghq.euhttps://api.ddog-gov.comhttps://api.datadoghq.comhttps://api.us3.datadoghq.com"
rb "example.rb"