This project served its purpose to launch a Datadog Agent in a Heroku environment, and has since been vastly improved upon.
See https://docs.datadoghq.com/agent/basic_agent_usage/heroku/ and https://github.com/DataDog/heroku-buildpack-datadog
This repo will be placed in read-only mode as of 2018-12-01. Thanks for your help and support!
A Heroku Buildpack to add Datadog relay to any Dyno.
datadog-agent 5.12.0 broke compatibility with this buildpack
by hard-deprecating dogstatsd.py start
When the incompatibility is resolved #30 can be reverted.
This buildpack is typically used in conjunction with other languages, so is most useful with language-specific buildpacks - see Heroku Language Buildpacks for more.
Here are some setup commands to add this buildpack to your project, as well as setting the required environment variables:
cd <root of my project>
heroku create # only if this is a new heroku project
heroku buildpacks:add heroku/ruby # or other language-specific build page needed
heroku buildpacks:add --index 1 https://github.com/miketheman/heroku-buildpack-datadog.git
heroku config:set HEROKU_APP_NAME=$(heroku apps:info|grep ===|cut -d' ' -f2)
heroku config:add DATADOG_API_KEY=<your API key>
git push heroku master
You can create/retrieve the DATADOG_API_KEY
from your account on this page.
API Key, not application key.
You can optionally set additional percentiles for your histogram metrics. By default
only 95th percentile will be generated. To generate additional percentiles, set all
persentiles, including default one, using env variable DATADOG_HISTOGRAM_PERCENTILES
.
For example, if you want to generate 0.95 and 0.99 percentiles, you may use following
command:
heroku config:add DATADOG_HISTOGRAM_PERCENTILES="0.95, 0.99"
Documentaion about additional percentiles here.
Once complete, the Agent's dogstatsd binary will be started automatically with the Dyno startup.
Once started, provides a listening port on 8125 for statsd/dogstatsd metrics and events.
An example using Ruby is here.
Things that have not been tested, tried, figured out.
.buildpacks
, like "https://github.com/miketheman/heroku-buildpack-datadog.git#v1.0.0"master
This buildpack was heavily inspired by the heroku-buildpack-apt code, as well as many others from Heroku and @ddollar. We leverage the same type of process runner that the Datadog Docker container uses, with a couple of modifications.
Author: @miketheman
MIT License, see LICENSE
file for full text.