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dogwrap with StatsD instead of API #803

Open 2rs2ts opened 7 months ago

2rs2ts commented 7 months ago

Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe. I would like for application developers on my platform to be able to reuse old NRPE scripts to send check results to Datadog, but don't want to hand them API credentials; I want them to send to a DogStatsD endpoint we're running instead.

Describe the solution you'd like I would like dogwrap to be able to send results to a given StatsD endpoint instead of having to use the API. If there are limitations that StatsD imposes–such an inability to send certain kinds of data–that is okay, they can just be documented. The core functionality seems like it can work with StatsD, and anything that wouldn't would probably be some edge case as far as my use case is concerned.

Describe alternatives you've considered The alternative, and what I'll have to go with due to time constraints on my end, is a custom wrapper script that handles converting exit codes and such into StatsD events, service checks, etc.

Additional context Due to my own time constraints, even though I could really benefit from dogwrap having this functionality, I almost certainly won't be able to create a PR for the change myself, so I'm only filing this feature request so that future users don't end up in a situation like mine.

I am aware that #298 exists, but the person who opened that issue obviously did not have the constraint of not wanting to give out API credentials to users, since they accepted the answer which would have required them to provide an API key.

Per the note in the issue template, I submitted a help ticket to let them know of this Github issue. I decided to make an issue, rather than just going through support, so that the general community could possibly benefit from the user story being written up.

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