puppet-datadog

Description

A Puppet report processor for sending metrics to Datadog. Requirements

• dogapi gem (v 1.0.3 and later)
• Puppet
• A DataDog account

Installation & Usage

1. Install the dogapi gem on your Puppet master

   $ sudo gem install dogapi
   

2. Install puppet-datadog as a module in your Puppet master's module path.

3. Update the datadog_api_key variable in the datadog.yaml file with your Datadog API key and copy the file to /etc/puppet/. An example file is included.

4. Enable pluginsync and reports on your master and clients in puppet.conf

   [master]
   report = true
   reports = datadog
   pluginsync = true
   [agent]
   report = true
   pluginsync = true
   

5. Run the Puppet client and sync the report as a plugin

Author

James Turnbull james@lovedthanlost.net

License

Author:: James Turnbull (<james@lovedthanlost.net>)
Copyright:: Copyright (c) 2011 James Turnbull
License:: Apache License, Version 2.0

Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
You may obtain a copy of the License at

    http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0

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