Export telemetry data to Datadog

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You can export telemetry data from your Tiger Cloud services with the time-series and analytics capability enabled to Datadog. See Exported metrics for the full list of default and additional metrics you can export.

This page shows you how to create a Datadog exporter in Tiger Console, and manage the lifecycle of data exporters. This integration is available for Scale or Enterprise pricing plans.

Prerequisites

To follow the steps on this page:

Create a target Tiger Cloud service with real-time analytics enabled.

Create a data exporter

Tiger Cloud data exporters send telemetry data from a Tiger Cloud service to third-party monitoring tools. You create an exporter on the project level, in the same AWS region as your service:

In Tiger Console, open Exporters
Click New exporter
Select Metrics for Data type and Datadog for provider
Choose your AWS region and provide the API key
The AWS region must be the same for your Tiger Cloud exporter and the Datadog provider.
Set Site to your Datadog region
Export additional metrics
Optionally tick PostgreSQL metrics to export additional metrics, then click Create exporter.

Manage a data exporter

This section shows you how to attach, edit, and delete a data exporter.

Attach a data exporter to a Tiger Cloud service

To send telemetry data to an external monitoring tool, you attach a data exporter to your Tiger Cloud service. You can attach only one exporter to a service.

To attach an exporter:

In Tiger Console, choose the service
Click Operations > Exporters
Select the exporter, then click Attach exporter
If you are attaching a first Logs data type exporter, restart the service

You can now monitor your service metrics.

Edit a data exporter

To update a data exporter:

In Tiger Console, open Exporters
Next to the exporter you want to edit, click the menu > Edit
Edit the exporter fields and save your changes

Delete a data exporter

To remove a data exporter that you no longer need:

Disconnect the data exporter from your Tiger Cloud service
1. In Tiger Console, choose the service.
2. Click Operations > Exporters.
3. Click the trash can icon next to the exporter.
4. Repeat for every service attached to the exporter you want to remove.
The data exporter is now unattached from all services. However, it still exists in your project.
Delete the exporter on the project level
1. In Tiger Console, open Exporters
2. Next to the exporter you want to edit, click menu > Delete
3. Confirm that you want to delete the data exporter.