What CoIsland watches in Datadog

Each monitor kind brings its own query and its own card in the island.

How to watch Datadog from an island on your Mac

Each monitor is a ring in the island that counts down to its next check. When a Datadog monitor fires, the island opens with its sound and the card reads Query alert · Alert · env:prod. A click opens the alert in CoIsland with the groups alerting now and the monitor’s message, and Open in Datadog. Connect Datadog covers every field and kind.

Connect it in three steps

  1. Copy an API key and create your own application key in Datadog's settings.

  2. Add a Datadog connector with your site and both keys. Test connector checks each.

  3. Pick a monitor kind or an example and choose when it alerts.

Built for Datadog

  • Your own application key, with your permissions; scoped keys work.
  • Read only: it never mutes, resolves or edits.
  • All seven Datadog sites, US1 to US1-FED.
  • Both keys stay in the macOS Keychain and go only to your site's API.

Then hand it to an agent

A click on the alert opens the agent in a terminal under it, with the whole alert as its first message.

Datadog questions

Does CoIsland need a Datadog admin?

Only to create an API key when there is none you may copy. The Standard role can copy an existing API key and create its own application key.

Which permissions does a scoped application key need?

monitors_read, incident_read and timeseries_query.

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