Tutorial: Send events to Datadog from Amazon EventBridge

You can use EventBridge to route events to third-party services,such as Datadog.

In this tutorial, you'll use the EventBridge console to create a connection to Datadog, an API destination that points to Datadog, and a rule to route events to Datadog.

Prerequisites

To complete this tutorial, you'll need the following resources:

• A Datadog account.

• A Datadog API key.

• An EventBridge-enabled Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3) bucket.

Step 1: Create connection

To send events to Datadog, you'll first have to establish a connection to the Datadog API.

To create the connection

1. Open the Amazon EventBridge console at https://console.aws.amazon.com/events/.

2. In the navigation pane, choose API destinations.

3. Choose the Connections tab, and then choose Create connection.

4. Enter a name and description for the connection. For example, enter Datadog as a name, and Datadog API Connection as a description.

5. For Authorization type, choose API key.

6. For API key name, enter DD-API-KEY.

7. For Value, paste your Datadog secret API key.

8. Choose Create.

Step 2: Create API destination

Now that you've created the connection, next you'll create the API destination to use as the target of the rule.

To create the API Destination

1. Open the Amazon EventBridge console at https://console.aws.amazon.com/events/.

2. In the navigation pane, choose API destinations.

3. Choose Create API destination.

4. Enter a name and description for the API destination. For example, enter DatadogAD for the name, and Datadog API Destination for the description..

5. For API destination endpoint, enter the Datadog Logs endpoint: https://http-intake.logs.datadoghq.com/api/v2/logs.

   Note

   This tutorial delivers events to Datadog Logs. You can also deliver events to Datadog using the events endpoint: https://api.datadoghq.com/api/v1/events.

6. For HTTP method, choose POST.

7. For Invocation rate limit, enter 300.

8. For Connection, choose Use an existing connection and choose the Datadog connection you created in step 1.

9. Choose Create.

Step 3: Create rule

Next, you'll create a rule to send events to Datadog when an Amazon S3 object is created.

To create a rule

1. Open the Amazon EventBridge console at https://console.aws.amazon.com/events/.

2. In the navigation pane, choose Rules.

3. Choose Create rule.

4. Enter a name and description for the rule. For example, enter DatadogRule for the name, and Rule to send events to Datadog for S3 object creation for the description.

5. For Event bus, choose default.

6. For Rule type, choose Rule with an event pattern.

7. Choose Next.

8. For Event source, choose Other.

9. For Event pattern, enter the following:

   {
     "source": ["aws.s3"]
   }

10. Choose Next.

11. For Target types, choose EventBridge API destination.

12. For API destination, choose Use an existing API destination, and then choose the DatadogAD destination you created in step 2.

13. For Execution role, choose Create a new for role for this specific resource.

14. For Additional settings, do the following:

    1. For Configure target input, choose Input transformer from the drop-down list.

    2. Choose Configure input transformer

    3. for Sample events, enter the following:

       {
         "detail":[]
       }

    4. For Target input transformer do the following:

       1. For Input Path, enter the following:

          {"detail":"$.detail"}

       2. For Input Template, enter the following:

          {"message": <detail>}

    5. Choose Confirm..

15. Choose Next.

16. Choose Next.

17. Review the details of the rule and choose Create rule.

Step 4: Test the rule

To test your rule, create an Amazon S3 object by uploading a file to an EventBridge-enabled bucket. The created object will be logged in the Datadog Logs console.

Step 5: Clean up your resources

You can now delete the resources that you created for this tutorial, unless you want to retain them. By deleting AWS resources that you are no longer using, you prevent unnecessary charges to your AWS account.

To delete the EventBridge Connections(s)

1. Open the API destination page of the EventBridge console.

2. Choose the Connections tab.

3. Select the Connection(s) you created.

4. Choose Delete.

5. Enter the name of the connection and choose Delete.

To delete the EventBridge API destination(s)

1. Open the API destination page of the EventBridge console.

2. Select the API destinations(s) you created.

3. Choose Delete.

4. Enter the name of the API destination and choose Delete.

To delete the EventBridge rule(s)

1. Open the Rules page of the EventBridge console.

2. Select the rule(s) that you created.

3. Choose Delete.

4. Choose Delete.