Datadog Webhook

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In addition to setting up API integrations between Transposit and Datadog, you can also use webhooks to send incident payloads from Datadog to Transposit.

Prerequisites

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Define the Webhook

  1. Go to https://app.datadoghq.com/integrations/webhooks?search%253Dwebhook.

  2. Click New Webhook.

  3. Provide a name in the Name field and set the below as the payload in the Payload field.

{
   "id": "$ID",
   "last_updated": "$LAST_UPDATED",
   "event_type": "$EVENT_TYPE",
   "title": "$EVENT_TITLE",
   "date": "$DATE",
   "org": {
       "id": "$ORG_ID",
       "name": "$ORG_NAME"
   },
   "body": "$EVENT_MSG",
   "aggreg_key": "$AGGREG_KEY",
   "alert_cycle_key": "$ALERT_CYCLE_KEY",
   "alert_id": "$ALERT_ID",
   "alert_metric": "$ALERT_METRIC",
   "alert_priority": "$ALERT_PRIORITY",
   "alert_query": "$ALERT_QUERY",
   "alert_scope": "$ALERT_SCOPE",
   "alert_status": "$ALERT_STATUS",
   "alert_title": "$ALERT_TITLE",
   "alert_transition": "$ALERT_TRANSITION",
   "alert_type": "$ALERT_TYPE",
   "email": "$EMAIL",
   "hostname": "$HOSTNAME",
   "link": "$LINK",
   "logs_sample": "$LOGS_SAMPLE",
   "metric_namespace": "$METRIC_NAMESPACE",
   "priority": "$PRIORITY",
   "snapshot": "$SNAPSHOT",
   "tags": "$TAGS",
   "text_only_msg": "$TEXT_ONLY_MSG",
   "user": "$USER",
   "username": "$USERNAME"
}

  1. Define a Webhook in Transposit, select the Datadog template in the Prebuilt template drop-down, and then copy the Webhook URL into the URL field in your Webhook definition in Datadog.

  2. The prebuilt template gives you a default payload in Transposit, with extracted fields automatically mapped to alert fields, as show below.

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