Datadog

Send logs to Datadog

The Datadog output plugin allows to ingest your logs into Datadog.

Before you begin, you need a Datadog account, a Datadog API key, and you need to activate Datadog Logs Management.

Configuration Parameters

Key	Description	Default
Host	Required - The Datadog server where you are sending your logs.	http-intake.logs.datadoghq.com
TLS	Required - End-to-end security communications security protocol. Datadog recommends setting this to on.	off
compress	Recommended - compresses the payload in GZIP format, Datadog supports and recommends setting this to gzip.
apikey	Required - Your Datadog API key.
Proxy	Optional - Specify an HTTP Proxy. The expected format of this value is http://host:port. Note that https is not supported yet.
provider	To activate the remapping, specify configuration flag provider with value ecs.
json_date_key	Date key name for output.	timestamp
include_tag_key	If enabled, a tag is appended to output. The key name is used tag_key property.	false
tag_key	The key name of tag. If include_tag_key is false, This property is ignored.	tagkey
dd_service	Recommended - The human readable name for your service generating the logs (e.g. the name of your application or database). If unset, Datadog will look for the service using Service Remapper."
dd_source	Recommended - A human readable name for the underlying technology of your service (e.g. postgres or nginx). If unset, Datadog will look for the source in the ddsource attribute.
dd_tags	Optional - The tags you want to assign to your logs in Datadog. If unset, Datadog will look for the tags in the ddtags attribute.
dd_message_key	By default, the plugin searches for the key 'log' and remap the value to the key 'message'. If the property is set, the plugin will search the property name key.
dd_hostname	The host the emitted logs should be associated with. If unset, Datadog expects the host to be set with host, hostname, or syslog.hostname attributes. See Datadog Logs preprocessor documentation for recognized attributes.	none
workers	The number of workers to perform flush operations for this output.	0
header	Add additional arbitrary HTTP header key/value pair. Multiple headers can be set.	none

Configuration File

Get started quickly with this configuration file:

[OUTPUT]
    Name        datadog
    Match       *
    Host        http-intake.logs.datadoghq.com
    TLS         on
    compress    gzip
    apikey      <my-datadog-api-key>
    dd_service  <my-app-service>
    dd_source   <my-app-source>
    dd_tags     team:logs,foo:bar
    dd_hostname myhost

Troubleshooting

403 Forbidden

If you get a 403 Forbidden error response, double check that you have a valid Datadog API key and that you have activated Datadog Logs Management.