community.general.datadog_event – Posts events to Datadog service

Note

This plugin is part of the community.general collection (version 1.3.2).

To install it use: ansible-galaxy collection install community.general.

To use it in a playbook, specify: community.general.datadog_event.

Synopsis
Parameters
Examples

Synopsis

Allows to post events to Datadog (www.datadoghq.com) service.
Uses http://docs.datadoghq.com/api/#events API.

Parameters

Parameter	Choices/Defaults	Comments
aggregation_key string		An arbitrary string to use for aggregation.
alert_type string	error warning info ← success	Type of alert.
api_key string / required		Your DataDog API key.
app_key string / required		Your DataDog app key.
date_happened integer		POSIX timestamp of the event. Default value is now.
host string		Host name to associate with the event. If not specified, it defaults to the remote system's hostname.
priority string	normal ← low	The priority of the event.
tags list / elements=string		Comma separated list of tags to apply to the event.
text string / required		The body of the event.
title string / required		The event title.
validate_certs boolean	no yes ←	If `no`, SSL certificates will not be validated. This should only be used on personally controlled sites using self-signed certificates.

Examples

- name: Post an event with low priority
  community.general.datadog_event:
    title: Testing from ansible
    text: Test
    priority: low
    api_key: 9775a026f1ca7d1c6c5af9d94d9595a4
    app_key: j4JyCYfefWHhgFgiZUqRm63AXHNZQyPGBfJtAzmN

- name: Post an event with several tags
  community.general.datadog_event:
    title: Testing from ansible
    text: Test
    api_key: 9775a026f1ca7d1c6c5af9d94d9595a4
    app_key: j4JyCYfefWHhgFgiZUqRm63AXHNZQyPGBfJtAzmN
    tags: 'aa,bb,#host:{{ inventory_hostname }}'

Authors

Artūras arturaz Šlajus (@arturaz)
Naoya Nakazawa (@n0ts)

© 2012–2018 Michael DeHaan
© 2018–2019 Red Hat, Inc.
Licensed under the GNU General Public License version 3.
https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/2.10/collections/community/general/datadog_event_module.html