Datadog Integration
The Datadog integration allows Velocity to ingest Datadog information for monitoring and insights
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The Datadog integration allows Velocity to ingest Datadog information for monitoring and insights
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Follow these steps in your Datadog account to obtain both the application and API keys to configure the Velocity integration.
Navigate to Organization settings, then click API keys.
Click the New Key.
Enter a name for your key.
Click Create API key.
If the "New Role" button (1.b below) isnโt visible, you might need to enable custom roles. Click the cog wheel and select "Enable". Check out Datadog's documentation for further guidance.
Create a new role
Navigate to Organization settings, then click Roles (under the ACCESS section)
Click "+ New Role" at the top right
Enter a name for the new role - Velocity Service Account Role
Select the following permissions
Monitors Read
Monitors Write
Integrations Manage
Integrations Read
APM Read
Synthetics Read
Synthetics Write
Dashboards Read
Click Save
Create a new Service Account
Navigate to Organization settings, then click Service Accounts (under the Identity & Accounts section)
Click "+ New Service Account" at the top right
Enter a name for the new role, for example, Velocity Service Account
Enter your corporate email address
Assign the role created previously, Velocity Service Account Role
Click Create Service Account
Create a new Service Account Token
Navigate to Organization settings, then click Service Accounts (under the Identity & Accounts section)
Click the Service Account we previously created, Velocity Service Account
Click "+ New Key"
Enter a name for the new key, for example, Velocity Service Account App Key
Click Create Key
Keep the "Not Scoped" configuration
Copy the new key to your clipboard
Following Datadog's guideline here to get your site name
Send your Velocity point of contact both keys and the site name via your dedicated Slack channel or email us at support@velocity.tech