Bonsai

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Overview

Track request level metrics for your Bonsai clusters to:

  • Visualize the performance of your clusters
  • Correlate search performance with application performance
  • Create alerts

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Setup

Integrating your cluster with Datadog requires submitting your API key to the bonsai app.

Acquire API key

In Datadog, navigate to Integrations –> API and copy your API Key.

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Submit API key

Navigate to Bonsai –> Clusters and click the cluster you want to integrate. Navigate to the Manage tab and scroll to the bottom of the page.

Under the “Datadog Integration” section paste your API key and click “Activate Datadog”.

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Verify

If your key is valid, you should see the integration as active.

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Within a few minutes, request metrics are available in your Datadog dashboard.

Data Collected

Metrics

bonsai.req.2xx
(gauge)		Number of requests with a 2xx (successful) response code
Shown as request
bonsai.req.4xx
(gauge)		Number of requests with a 4xx (client error) response code
Shown as request
bonsai.req.5xx
(gauge)		Number of requests with a 5xx (server error) response code
Shown as request
bonsai.req.max_concurrency
(gauge)		Peak concurrent requests
Shown as connection
bonsai.req.p50
(gauge)		The median request duration
Shown as minute
bonsai.req.p95
(gauge)		The 95th percentile request duration
Shown as minute
bonsai.req.p99
(gauge)		The 99th percentile request duration
Shown as minute
bonsai.req.queue_depth
(gauge)		Peak queue depth (how many requests are waiting due to concurrency limits)
Shown as connection
bonsai.req.reads
(gauge)		The number of requests which read data
Shown as request
bonsai.req.rx_bytes
(gauge)		The number of bytes sent to elasticsearch
Shown as byte
bonsai.req.total
(gauge)		The total number of requests
Shown as request
bonsai.req.tx_bytes
(gauge)		The number of bytes sent to client
Shown as byte
bonsai.req.writes
(gauge)		The total number of writes
Shown as request

Metrics are tagged for each cluster, so you can segment based on clusters. The tags look like:

cluster:my-cluster-slug

Events

The Bonsai integration does not include any events.

Service Checks

The Bonsai integration does not include any service checks.

Troubleshooting

Need help? Contact Datadog Support.