Events with DogStatsD

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After installing DogStatsD, you can emit events to your Datadog event stream with the following function:

event(<TITLE>, <TEXT>, <TIMESTAMP>, <HOSTNAME>, <AGGREGATION_KEY>, <PRIORITY>, <SOURCE_TYPE_NAME>, <ALERT_TYPE>, <TAGS>)

Definitions:

Parameter	Type	Required	Description
`<TITLE>`	String	Yes	The title of the event
`<TEXT>`	String	Yes	The text body of the event
`<TIMESTAMP>`	Integer	Yes	The epoch timestamp for the event (defaults to the current time from the DogStatsD server)
`<HOSTNAME>`	String	No	The name of the host
`<AGGREGATION_KEY>`	String	No	A key to use for aggregating events
`<PRIORITY>`	String	No	Specifies the priority of the event (`normal` or `low`).
`<SOURCE_TYPE_NAME>`	String	No	The source type name
`<ALERT_TYPE>`	String	No	`error`, `warning`, `success`, or `info` (defaults to `info`)
`<TAGS>`	List of strings	No	A list of tags associated with this event.

Examples

View errors and exceptions in Datadog with a DogStatsD event:

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event.py

from datadog import initialize, statsd

options = {
    'statsd_host':'127.0.0.1',
    'statsd_port':8125
}

initialize(**options)

statsd.event('An error occurred', 'Error message', alert_type='error', tags=['env:dev'])

event.rb

require 'datadog/statsd'

statsd = Datadog::Statsd.new('localhost', 8125)

statsd.event('An error occurred', "Error message", alert_type: 'error', tags: ['env:dev'])

event.go

package main

import (
    "log"
    "time"

    "github.com/DataDog/datadog-go/statsd"
)

func main() {

    dogstatsdClient, err := statsd.New("127.0.0.1:8125")

    if err != nil {
        log.Fatal(err)
    }
    for {
        dogstatsdClient.SimpleEvent("An error occurred", "Error message")
        time.Sleep(10 * time.Second)
    }
}

event.java

import com.timgroup.statsd.Event;
import com.timgroup.statsd.NonBlockingStatsDClientBuilder;
import com.timgroup.statsd.StatsDClient;

public class DogStatsdClient {

    public static void main(String[] args) throws Exception {

        StatsDClient Statsd = new NonBlockingStatsDClientBuilder()
            .prefix("statsd").
            .hostname("localhost")
            .port(8125)
            .build();

        Event event = Event.builder()
          .withTitle("An error occurred")
          .withText("Error message")
          .withAlertType(Event.AlertType.ERROR)
          .build();

        Statsd.recordEvent(event);
    }
}

event.cs

using StatsdClient;

public class DogStatsdClient
{
    public static void Main()
    {
        var dogstatsdConfig = new StatsdConfig
        {
            StatsdServerName = "127.0.0.1",
            StatsdPort = 8125,
        };

        using (var dogStatsdService = new DogStatsdService())
        {
            dogStatsdService.Configure(dogstatsdConfig);
            dogStatsdService.Event("An error occurred", "Error message", alertType: "error", date_happened='TIMESTAMP', tags: new[] { "env:dev" });
        }
    }
}

event.php

<?php

require __DIR__ . '/vendor/autoload.php';

use DataDog\DogStatsd;

$statsd = new DogStatsd(
    array('host' => '127.0.0.1',
          'port' => 8125,
     )
  );

$statsd->event('An error occurred.',
    array( 'text' => 'Error message',
           'alert_type' => 'error'
    )
  );

With the DogStatsD-PHP library you can submit events via TCP directly to the Datadog API. It’s slower but more reliable than using the Agent DogStatsD instance since events are forwarded from your application to the Agent using UDP. To use this, you must configure the library with your Datadog API and application keys instead of the local DogStatS instance:

event_through_api.php

<?php

require __DIR__ . '/vendor/autoload.php';

use DataDog\DogStatsd;

$statsd = new DogStatsd(
    array('api_key' => '<DATADOG_API_KEY>',
          'app_key' => '<DATADOG_APPLICATION_KEY>',
     )
  );

$statsd->event('An error occurred.',
    array( 'text' => 'Error message',
           'alert_type' => 'error'
    )
  );

Note:

Sending events with this method uses cURL for API requests.
You should use a try/catch code block to avoid warnings or errors on communication issues with the Datadog API.

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Events with DogStatsD

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