NAME

WebService::DataDog::Dashboard - Interface to Dashboard/Timeboard functions in DataDog's API.

VERSION

Version 1.0.3

SYNOPSIS

This module allows you interact with the Dashboard endpoint of the DataDog API.

Per DataDog: "The Dashboards end point allow you to programmatically create, update delete and query dashboards."

METHODS

get_all_dashboards()

Deprecated. Please use retrieve_all() instead.

retrieve_all()

Retrieve details for all user-created dashboards/timeboards ( does not include system-generated or integration dashboards ).

my $dashboard = $datadog->build('Dashboard');
my $dashboard_list = $dashboard->retrieve_all();

Parameters: None

get_dashboard()

Deprecated. Please use retrieve() instead.

retrieve()

Retrieve details for specified user-created dashboards/timeboards ( does not work for system-generated or integration dashboards/timeboards ).

my $dashboard = $datadog->build('Dashboard');
my $dashboard_data = $dashboard->retrieve( id => $dash_id );

Parameters:

• id

  Id of dashboard/timeboard you want to retrieve the details for.

update_dashboard()

Deprecated. Please use update() instead.

update()

Update details for specified user-created dashboard/timeboard ( does not work for system-generated or integration dashboards/timeboards ). Supply at least one of the arguments 'title', 'description', 'graphs'. Any argument not supplied will remain unchanged within the dashboard.

WARNING: If you only specify a new graph to add to the dashboard, you WILL LOSE ALL EXISTING GRAPHS. Your 'graphs' section must include ALL graphs that you want to be part of a dashboard.

my $dashboard = $datadog->build('Dashboard');
$dashboard->update(
	id          => $dash_id,
	title       => $dash_title,
	description => $dash_description,
	graphs      => $graphs,
);

Parameters:

• id

  Id of dashboard you want to update.

• title

  Optional. Specify updated title for specified dashboard.

• description

  Optional. Specify updated description for specified dashboard.

• graphs

  Optional. Specify updated graph definition for specified dashboard.

create()

Create new DataDog dashboard/timeboard with 1+ graphs. If successful, returns created dashboard/timeboard id.

my $dashboard = $datadog->build('Dashboard');
my $dashboard_id = $dashboard->create(
	title       => $dash_title,
	description => $dash_description,
	graphs      => $graphs,
);

Example:
my $new_dashboard_id = $dashboard->create(
	title       => "TEST DASH",
	description => "test dashboard",
	graphs      =>
	[
		{
			title => "Sum of Memory Free",
			definition =>
			{
				events   =>[],
				requests => [
					{ q => "sum:system.mem.free{*}" }
				]
			},
			viz => "timeseries"
		},
	],
);

Parameters:

• title

  Specify title for new dashboard.

• description

  Specify description for new dashboard.

• graphs

  Specify graph definition for new dashboard.

  • title

    Title of graph.

  • definition

    Definition of graph.

    • events

      Overlay any events from the event stream.

    • requests

      Metrics you want to graph.

  • viz

    Visualisation of graph. Valid values: timeseries (default), treemap.

delete_dashboard()

Deprecated. Please use delete() instead.

delete()

Delete specified user-created dashboard. NOTE: You cannot remove system-generated or integration dashboards.

my $dashboard = $datadog->build('Dashboard');
$dashboard->delete( id => $dash_id );

Parameters:

• id

  Dashboard id you want to delete.

INTERNAL FUNCTIONS

_error_checks()

Common error checking for creating/updating dashboards/timeboards.

cpanm WebService::DataDog

perl -MCPAN -e shell
install WebService::DataDog