Datadog Dashboard Generator

This is a command line utility that can be used to deploy a MVP "StopLights" Dashboard to a given Users Datadog Subscription from a template.

Logical Flow

1. Tool queries PCF Ops Manager for the following:

    cf-release string (e.g. cf-76553423523ab)
    job indexes/partitions from CF manifest
   

2. Reads template of PCF Stoplights Dashboard

3. Uploads a generated Datadog dashboard combining Ops Man vars & template

Example usage

    datadog-dashboard-gen -opsman_user=admin -opsman_passwd=blah -opsmanip=192.168.100.10 -ddapikey=243235r23435435345 -ddappkey=564758643636

Build & Run

1. Clone repo

    git clone https://github.com/pivotalservices/datadog-dashboard-gen.git
   

2. Build binary

    cd datadog-dashboard-gen
    go install
   

3. Run program to upload the Stoplights dashboard

    $GOPATH/bin/datadog-dashboard-gen -opsman_user=<OPSMAN_USER> -opsman_password=<OPSMAN_PASSWORD> -opsman_ip=<OPSMAN_IP> \
    -ddapikey=<DATADOG_API_KEY> -ddappkey=<DATADOG_APP_KEY>
   

Generate code from template

1. Install ego

2. Run ego (template is located under templates/screen)

ego -package datadog -o datadog/stoplights.go