Run Workflow Widget

Overview

The Run Workflow widget allows you to automate critical tasks from dashboards. Trigger your workflows from a dashboard at the point you become aware of an issue affecting the health of your system. This keeps your systems up and running by improving the time to resolution and reducing the possibility of errors.

Configuration

  1. Under Select the workflow, find your workflow in the dropdown menu.
  2. Map dashboard template variables to workflow input parameters. This allows the values of your dashboard template variables to be mapped directly to the input parameters when you run the workflow.
  3. Enter a title for the widget and click Save.
Click Run Workflow to trigger a workflow from Dashboard widget.

To run the workflow:

  1. Click Run Workflow on your dashboard widget.
  2. Under Execution parameters, any template variables you mapped to workflow inputs are automatically populated. Enter the values for any unmapped execution parameters, or edit the existing values if needed.
  3. Click Run to run the workflow.

API

This widget can be used with the Dashboards API. See the following table for the widget JSON schema definition:

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Field

Type

Description

custom_links

[object]

List of custom links.

is_hidden

boolean

The flag for toggling context menu link visibility.

label

string

The label for the custom link URL. Keep the label short and descriptive. Use metrics and tags as variables.

link

string

The URL of the custom link. URL must include http or https. A relative URL must start with /.

override_label

string

The label ID that refers to a context menu link. Can be logs, hosts, traces, profiles, processes, containers, or rum.

inputs

[object]

Array of workflow inputs to map to dashboard template variables.

name [required]

string

Name of the workflow input.

value [required]

string

Dashboard template variable. Can be suffixed with '.value' or '.key'.

time

 <oneOf>

Time setting for the widget.

Option 1

object

Wrapper for live span

live_span

enum

The available timeframes depend on the widget you are using. Allowed enum values: 1m,5m,10m,15m,30m,1h,4h,1d,2d,1w,1mo,3mo,6mo,week_to_date,month_to_date,1y,alert

Option 2

object

Used for arbitrary live span times, such as 17 minutes or 6 hours.

type [required]

enum

Type "live" denotes a live span in the new format. Allowed enum values: live

unit [required]

enum

Unit of the time span. Allowed enum values: minute,hour,day,week,month,year

value [required]

int64

Value of the time span.

Option 3

object

Used for fixed span times, such as 'March 1 to March 7'.

from [required]

int64

Start time in seconds since epoch.

to [required]

int64

End time in seconds since epoch.

type [required]

enum

Type "fixed" denotes a fixed span. Allowed enum values: fixed

title

string

Title of your widget.

title_align

enum

How to align the text on the widget. Allowed enum values: center,left,right

title_size

string

Size of the title.

type [required]

enum

Type of the run workflow widget. Allowed enum values: run_workflow

default: run_workflow

workflow_id [required]

string

Workflow id.

{
  "custom_links": [
    {
      "is_hidden": false,
      "label": "Search logs for {{host}}",
      "link": "https://app.datadoghq.com/logs?query={{host}}",
      "override_label": "logs"
    }
  ],
  "inputs": [
    {
      "name": "Environment",
      "value": "$env.value"
    }
  ],
  "time": {
    "live_span": "5m"
  },
  "title": "string",
  "title_align": "string",
  "title_size": "string",
  "type": "run_workflow",
  "workflow_id": "<workflow_id>"
}

Further reading

Additional helpful documentation, links, and articles:

Workflow AutomationDOCUMENTATION more more