Streamfold - Functions - Datadog

Unroll Metrics processes batched Datadog metric payloads into individual events.

Usage

Operates On: Datadog Metrics
Label: Optional
Filter: Optional

You should know!

Like the other Datdog functions, this function acts only on Datadog metrics events. All other event types are ignored. Original batched payloads are dropped after being unrolled.

Required Configuration

Metrics to Unroll: A comma-separated list of metric names, wildcards, and/or regular expressions. Regular expressions should be delimited by /.

Example

Unroll batched payload datadog.dogstatsd.client.packets_dropped_writer metric into individual metric events.

Configuration

Metrics to Unroll: datadog.dogstatsd.client.packets_dropped_writer

Before

{
  ...
  "series": [
    {
      "tags": [
        "version:7.46.0",
        "client:go",
        "client_version:5.1.1",
        "client_transport:udp"
      ],
      "type": 2,
      "unit": "",
      "interval": 10,
      "metric": "datadog.dogstatsd.client.packets_dropped_writer",
      "points": [
        {
          "timestamp": 1692049750,
          "value": 1.000000
        },
        {
          "timestamp": 1692049760,
          "value": 2.000000
        }
      ],
      "resources": [
        {
          "name": "91857706c12078",
          "type": "host"
        }
      ],
      "source_type_name": ""
    },
    ...
  ]
}

After

  {
    ...
    "metric": "datadog.dogstatsd.client.packets_dropped_writer",
    "timestamp": 1692049750,
    "value": 1.0,
    "tags": [...],
  },
  {
    ...
    "metric": "datadog.dogstatsd.client.packets_dropped_writer",
    "timestamp": 1692049760,
    "value": 2.0,
    "tags": [...],
  }