Overview

Azure Pipelines is a continuous integration and delivery service that supports any language, platform, or cloud.

Set up tracing on Azure Pipelines to gain real time insights into your CI/CD workflows, track pipeline performance, analyze inefficiencies, and manage your deployment operations.

Compatibility

Configure the Datadog integration

The Datadog integration for Azure Pipelines works by using service hooks to send data to Datadog.

1. Install the Datadog CI Visibility extension from the Azure Marketplace. There are several extensions starting with Datadog, make sure that you are installing the Datadog CI Visibility extension.

2. For each project, go to Project settings > Service hooks in Azure DevOps and select the green plus (+) icon to create a subscription.

3. Create a new subscription to the Datadog CI Visibility service for each of the following webhook types:

   • Run state changed
   • Run stage state changed
   • Run job state changed
   • Run stage approval completed
   • Run stage waiting for approval

4. Click Next to continue to the next step and set the following:

   • Datadog Site:
   • Datadog API Key: your Datadog API key.

5. Click Finish.

Configuring multiple projects in bulk

If you want to enable the hooks for many or all your Azure projects, Datadog provides a script to help you do it through the Azure API.

To run the script, you need:

• An Azure DevOps username
• An Azure DevOps API Token
• An Azure DevOps organization name

The script only needs python3 and the requests package. For more info, run:

./service_hooks.py --help

The script supports environment variables DD_API_KEY and DD_SITE, and flag parameters --dd-api-key and --dd-site.

Example for enabling the hooks in all projects:

./service_hooks.py \
    --dd-api-key ******************** \
    --az-user "John Doe" \
    --az-token ********************** \
    --az-org datadoghq \
    --threads 4

Example for enabling the hooks in specified projects:

./service_hooks.py \
    --dd-api-key ******************** \
    --az-user "John Doe" \
    --az-token ********************** \
    --az-org datadoghq \
    projectName1 projectName2

Visualize pipeline data in Datadog

The Pipelines and Pipeline Executions pages populate with data after the workflows finish.

Note: The Pipelines page shows data for only the default branch of each repository.

Further reading

Additional helpful documentation, links, and articles:

Monitor Azure Pipelines with Datadog CI VisibilityBLOG Troubleshooting CIDOCUMENTATION Extend Pipeline Visibility by adding custom tags and measuresDOCUMENTATION