Feature Request: Downtime by Monitor about terraform-provider-datadog

[MattHodge]

Looks like what this will do: https://github.com/terraform-providers/terraform-provider-datadog/pull/18

To explain the reason why you would want this:

• You have a single DataDog host that is running a PHP application for an online store.
  • The host is tagged as host:web_host and environment:production.
  • The host is sending two custom metrics from inside the PHP application:
    • online_checkout.products_purchased - increments every time a product is purchased
    • online_checkout.checkout_errors - incruments every time there is a failure when someone tries checking out.

You create a monitor for each case:

• Monitor 1 - A product has been purchased in the last 10 minutes
• Monitor 2 - Number of checkout errors < 1

Your online store doesn't have anyone buying from around 1am-8am each morning, so you want a downtime on this one (Monitor 1) between 1am-8am.

You never want a downtime on checkout errors though (Monitor 2), you want to get notified of this at all hours of the night if someone cannot checkout.

The way the resource is currently designed, you can only set downtimes on host tags, so you cannot just set Monitor 1 with a downtime.

If we can set downtimes by monitor_id this scenario is possible using this module.

Hopefully this explains why its needed :D

[nyanshak]

Mute a single monitor forever:

resource "datadog_monitor" "foo" {
    ...
   silenced {
      '*' = 0
   }
}

Mute by scope (such as by host or role):

resource "datadog_monitor" "foo" {
    ...
   silenced {
      'host:i-1234' = 0
   }
}

resource "datadog_monitor" "foo" {
    ...
   silenced {
      'role:db' = 0
   }
}

I believe this is already supported. Docs for silencing via the provider: docs. Let me know if I didn't understand the comment and that's not what you're talking about.

@philax

[kikitux]

As #18 got merged, can we close this?

@philax ?

[tombuildsstuff]

Closing @kikitux's request