Datadog an integration guide

Set Up

Setting up the Datadog integration [?] with Amazon Web Services requires configuring role delegation using AWS IAM.

Pre-requisites

A Datadog user account and AWS account are prerequisites for this integration. To create a Datadog account, refer to https://www.datadoghq.com/ .

After the successful creation of user account, log on Datadog dashboard and get the API key by clicking

Integrations → APIs → API Keys

Open the AWS integration tile in the Datadog dashboard. Tiles will be displayed as shown in Figure-3.

• Tiles are displayed with two statuses- ‘Installed‘ and ‘Available‘. The tile used in this experiment is ‘Amazon Web Services‘.
• If in ‘Available‘ status, ‘Install‘ button will be displayed on mouse hover over the tile.
• Click the Install button to install the integration.

When installation is completed, the status will be changed to ’Installed’. The Installed AWS tile is highlighted in Figure-3. On mouse hover over the installed tile, a Configure window is displayed with a ‘Configure’ button.

• Click on the ‘Configure’ button to navigate to the Account Configuration page.
  The AWS Account Configuration page is shown in Figure-4

In the Configuration page, click on

Add account → Automatically Using CloudFormation

It will take to the CloudFormation-Stack page. Give API key and Site . This is shown in
Figure-5.

Select the check boxes under the Capabilities section → Create Stack

Stack Creation is shown in Figure-6

After creating the stack, go back to the Configuration Setup page.

• Provide the AWS account ID
• Give IAM Role name as ‘DatadogIntegrationRole’.
• Click on ‘Update Configuration’ button.
  This finishes the setup.

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