Ansible Datadog Role

Install and configure Datadog base agent & checks.

Supports most Debian and RHEL-based Linux distributions.

Installation

ansible-galaxy install Datadog.datadog

Role Variables

• datadog_api_key - Your Datadog API key.
• datadog_checks - YAML configuration for agent checks to drop into /etc/dd-agent/conf.d.
• datadog_config - Settings to place in /etc/dd-agent/datadog.conf.
• datadog_process_checks - Array of process checks and options (DEPRECATED: use process under datadog_checks instead)
• datadog_apt_repo - Override default Datadog apt repository
• datadog_apt_key_url - Override default url to Datadog apt key
• datadog_apt_key_url_new - Override default url to the new Datadog apt key (in the near future the apt repo will have to be checked against this new key instead of the current key)

Dependencies

None

Example Playbooks

- hosts: servers
  roles:
    - { role: Datadog.datadog, become: yes }  # On Ansible < 1.9, use `sudo: yes` instead of `become: yes`
  vars:
    datadog_api_key: "123456"
    datadog_config:
      tags: "mytag0, mytag1"
      log_level: INFO
    datadog_checks:
      process:
        init_config:
        instances:
          - name: ssh
            search_string: ['ssh', 'sshd' ]
          - name: syslog
            search_string: ['rsyslog' ]
            cpu_check_interval: 0.2
            exact_match: true
            ignore_denied_access: true
      ssh_check:
        init_config:
        instances:
          - host: localhost
            port: 22
            username: root
            password: changeme
            sftp_check: True
            private_key_file:
            add_missing_keys: True
      nginx:
        init_config:
        instances:
          - nginx_status_url: http://example.com/nginx_status/
            tags:
              - instance:foo
          - nginx_status_url: http://example2.com:1234/nginx_status/
            tags:
              - instance:bar

- hosts: servers
  roles:
    - { role: Datadog.datadog, become: yes, datadog_api_key: "mykey" }  # On Ansible < 1.9, use `sudo: yes` instead of `become: yes`

License

Apache2

Author Information

brian@akins.org

dustinjamesbrown@gmail.com --Forked from brian@akins.org

Datadog info@datadoghq.com --Forked from dustinjamesbrown@gmail.com