satyajitv / json2dog

Send JSON data from a URL to datadog.

json2dog

Send JSON data from a URL to datadog.

• Supported Platforms
• Usage
• Dependencies
• Sample Results
• Support
• Authors

Supported Platforms

• Ubuntu or CentOS

Usage

# to get our copy of DataDog::DogStatsd
cd lib
export PERL5LIB=`pwd`
cd ..

./json2dog health_url statsd_base

where

• health_url is a URL to a JSON end point that returns stats we should graph
• statsd_base is the start of the metric name that should be sent to datadog

Options can be set by setting environment variables:

# set port for dogstatsd (optional)
export DOGSTATSD_PORT=8125

# enable debug mode
export JSON2DOG_DEBUG=1

# log to a file
export JSON2DOG_LOG=/var/log/json2dog.log

./json2dog health_url statsd_base

Other options are used by the init scripts and are documented here.

Dependencies

• Perl 5
• Perl module DataDog::DogStatsd is included
• Perl module JSON
• Perl module IO::Handle (core module)
• Perl module IO::Socket::SSL
• Perl module LWP::UserAgent

The two standard Perl modules mentioned above can be installed my running prereq.sh.

Sample Results

Support

Please file tickets via github issues.

You may find the CHANGELOG helpful.

Authors

• Christopher Hicks [email protected]