About the integration:
Resolve poor performance and outages before your business users notice, by integrating Datadog APM's monitoring with Freshservice.
Datadog Application Performance Monitoring (APM or tracing) provides you with deep insight into your application's performance, from automatically generated dashboards for monitoring key metrics like request volume and latency to detailed traces of individual requests side by side with your logs and infrastructure monitoring.
Through this integration with Freshservice, triage all your Datadog APM alerts in Freshservice to enable your team to quickly resolve the issues.
Configuration in Freshservice:
Step 1:
Head to the Admin panel, scroll down to IT Operations Management, and select Monitoring Tools.
If your account has more than one workspace, navigate to Admin > {Worskpace Name} > IT Operations Management> Monitoring Tools.
Step 2:
You are now on the Monitoring Tools list page. Select Add monitoring tool to add a new integration.
Step 3
You will see a list of pre-configured integrations, the gateway to custom integration using webhooks, and the option to use email as a channel for alerts. Select Datadog APM.
Step 4
Get the Endpoint URL and the Auth key for Datadog APM by following the integration setup.
Configuration in Datadog APM:
Click on Integration from left pane and Go to integrations.
In the search toolbar under Integrations tab, search for Webhooks and click on the webhooks integration from the search result.
Navigate to the Configuration tab in the Webhook pop-up window and select +New button next to the Webhook.
Enter Name, URL, Payload and Headers for the webhook and click Save
Payload:
URL:
Please paste the end-point URL and the Auth header copied from the Freshservice Authorize integration page of Datadog APM Integration.
Example:
https://yourcompanyname.alerts.freshservice.com/alert_profiles/715/integrations/614/alerts
Payload:
{
"datadog_alert_id": "$ALERT_ID",
"alert_cycle_key": "$ALERT_CYCLE_KEY",
"aggreg_key": "$AGGREG_KEY",
"alert_metric": "$ALERT_METRIC",
"alert_scope": "$ALERT_SCOPE",
"alert_status": "$ALERT_STATUS",
"alert_title": "$ALERT_TITLE",
"alert_transition": "$ALERT_TRANSITION",
"last_updated": "$LAST_UPDATED",
"hostname": "$HOSTNAME",
"priority": "$PRIORITY",
"tags": "$TAGS",
"logs_sample": "$LOGS_SAMPLE",
"org_name": "$ORG_NAME",
"link": "$LINK",
"alert_query": "$ALERT_QUERY",
"event_title": "$EVENT_TITLE",
"event_msg": "$EVENT_MSG",
"event_type": "$EVENT_TYPE",
"metric_namespace": "$METRIC_NAMESPACE" }
Headers :
{ "Authorization": "auth-key eyJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiJ9.eyJhX2lkIjoyOTIsImFwX2lkIjo1Mywic19pZCI6NSwidHMiOjE2MDM5NTgzOTYuNzAyNDMyfQ.-MWvIL98-hIe6oZDUjarHK0WwFe5CiJ4pBqbUxkeQck", "Content-Type": "application/json" }
Once the webhook is set-up, navigate to Integrations -> Agents. Select agent for your platform to download the agent. Install the downloaded agent on the monitoring tools. Please also note down the Account API key here.
Please update the API Key in the monitoring tool installed in the machine.
Once the API key is configured, now navigate to Monitor -> New Monitor and choose Metric -> New Metric
Choose the detection method as Threshold Alert
Under Define the metric - choose the name of the metric and the host machine from the dropdown list.
Specify the threshold value to trigger alert.
Under Say what’s happening section, enter a name for the integration. Typing @ will populate the list of webhooks configured. Choose the webhook from the list that was configured earlier.
Click on Save to complete the integration.
