GraylogPluginDatadog Plugin for Graylog

Graylog plugin to output messages as a Datadog event.

Required Graylog version: 1.2 and later

Installation

Download the plugin and place the .jar file in your Graylog plugin directory. The plugin directory is the plugins/ folder relative from your graylog-server directory by default and can be configured in your graylog.conf file.

Restart graylog-server and you are done.

Development

You can improve your development experience for the web interface part of your plugin dramatically by making use of hot reloading. To do this, do the following:

• git clone https://github.com/Graylog2/graylog2-server.git
• cd graylog2-server/graylog2-web-interface
• ln -s $YOURPLUGIN plugin/
• npm install && npm start

Usage

This plugin adds the ability to add message outputs which create events in Datadog.

Requirements:

• Datadog API key - https://app.datadoghq.com/account/settings#api
• Datadog APP key - https://app.datadoghq.com/account/settings#api

To add a new event output, navigate to System -> Outputs, select the Datadog output type, and click Launch new output.

From this screen you can configure the output to add events to your Datadog event stream.

Getting started

This project is using Maven 3 and requires Java 7 or higher.

• Clone this repository.
• Run mvn package to build a JAR file.
• Optional: Run mvn jdeb:jdeb and mvn rpm:rpm to create a DEB and RPM package respectively.
• Copy generated JAR file in target directory to your Graylog plugin directory.
• Restart the Graylog.

Plugin Release

We are using the maven release plugin:

$ mvn release:prepare
[...]
$ mvn release:perform

This sets the version numbers, creates a tag and pushes to GitHub. Travis CI will build the release artifacts and upload to GitHub automatically.