GraylogPluginDatadog Plugin for Graylog

Graylog plugin to output messages as a Datadog event.
Required Graylog version: 1.2 and later
Installation
Download the plugin
and place the .jar
file in your Graylog plugin directory. The plugin directory
is the plugins/
folder relative from your graylog-server
directory by default
and can be configured in your graylog.conf
file.
Restart graylog-server
and you are done.
Development
You can improve your development experience for the web interface part of your plugin
dramatically by making use of hot reloading. To do this, do the following:
git clone https://github.com/Graylog2/graylog2-server.git
cd graylog2-server/graylog2-web-interface
ln -s $YOURPLUGIN plugin/
npm install && npm start
Usage
This plugin adds the ability to add message outputs which create events in Datadog.
Requirements:
To add a new event output, navigate to System -> Outputs, select the Datadog output
type, and click Launch new output
.
From this screen you can configure the output to add events to your Datadog event stream.

Getting started
This project is using Maven 3 and requires Java 7 or higher.
- Clone this repository.
- Run
mvn package
to build a JAR file.
- Optional: Run
mvn jdeb:jdeb
and mvn rpm:rpm
to create a DEB and RPM package respectively.
- Copy generated JAR file in target directory to your Graylog plugin directory.
- Restart the Graylog.
Plugin Release
We are using the maven release plugin:
$ mvn release:prepare
[...]
$ mvn release:perform
This sets the version numbers, creates a tag and pushes to GitHub. Travis CI will build the release artifacts and upload to GitHub automatically.