Topology Map Widget

The Topology Map widget displays a visualization of data sources and their relationships to help understand how data flows through your architecture.

Setup

Configuration

1. Choose the data to graph:

   • Service Map: The node in the center of the widget represents the mapped service. Services that call the mapped service are shown with arrows from the caller to the service. To learn more about the Service Map, reference the Service Map feature of APM.

2. Enter a title for your graph.

API

This widget can be used with the Dashboards API. See the Dashboards API documentation for additional reference.

The dedicated widget JSON schema definition for the service map widget is:

{
  "custom_links": [
    {
      "is_hidden": false,
      "label": "Search logs for {{host}}",
      "link": "https://app.datadoghq.com/logs?query={{host}}",
      "override_label": "logs"
    }
  ],
  "requests": [
    {
      "query": {
        "data_source": "string",
        "filters": [
          "env:prod",
          "az:us-east"
        ],
        "service": "myService"
      },
      "request_type": "string"
    }
  ],
  "title": "string",
  "title_align": "string",
  "title_size": "string",
  "type": "topology_map"
}

Further Reading

Additional helpful documentation, links, and articles:

Building Dashboards using JSONDOCUMENTATION Service MapDOCUMENTATION