DataDog Client JS

This is an opinionated client for integrating with DataDog directly for logging and metrics. This package is designed to be a wrapper for simplifying the instantiation of existing package implementations.

Requirements

• Node 18.x or higher
• Datadog Account and have generated an API Key

Installation

npm install @gymshark/datadog-client

or

yarn add @gymshark/datadog-client

Usage

Logger Client

The logging client returns winston logging client that includes a HTTP transport for sending logs to DataDog. Some of the winston logger options are preset to ensure that logs are sent to DataDog in a JSON format, but any of the winston configuration can be overridden.

The logger is configured to have 2 transports:

1. Console Transport to log to the console
2. HTTP Transport to configured to send logs to DataDog

Using require to import dependencies

const client = require('@gymshark/datadog-client');

const logger = client.logger({
    apiKey: 'dd-api-key',
    service: 'test'
});

logger.info('Hello World');

Using import to import dependencies

import  client from '@gymshark/datadog-client';

const logger = client.logger({
    apiKey: 'dd-api-key',
    service: 'test'
});

logger.info('Hello World');

Using require to import dependencies

const client = require('@gymshark/datadog-client');

const logger = client.logger({
    apiKey: 'dd-api-key',
    service: 'test',
    ddRegion: 'eu'
});

logger.info('Hello World');

Using import to import dependencies

import  client from '@gymshark/datadog-client';

const logger = client.logger({
    apiKey: 'dd-api-key',
    service: 'test',
    ddRegion: 'eu'
});

logger.info('Hello World');

Using require to import dependencies

const client = require('@gymshark/datadog-client');
const winston = require('winston');

const logger = client.logger({
    apiKey: 'dd-api-key',
    service: 'test',
    ddRegion: 'eu',
    tags: 'env:develop,app:this-service,version:1.0.0',
    level: `debug`,
    format: winston.format.combine(
        winston.format.timestamp(),
        winston.format.json()
    ),
  additionalTransports: [
        new winston.transports.File({ filename: 'error.log', level: 'error' })
    ]
});

logger.info('Hello World');

Using import to import dependencies

import  client from '@gymshark/datadog-client';
import winston from 'winston';

const logger = client.logger({
    apiKey: 'dd-api-key',
    service: 'test',
    ddRegion: 'eu',
    tags: 'env:develop,app:this-service,version:1.0.0',
    level: `debug`,
    format: winston.format.combine(
        winston.format.timestamp(),
        winston.format.json()
    ),
  additionalTransports: [
        new winston.transports.File({ filename: 'error.log', level: 'error' })
    ]
});
logger.info('Hello World');

Logger Options

• apiKey - Your DataDog API Key [required]
• service - The name of the application or service generating the logs [required]
• ddRegion - The region yourDataDog account is in. This is used to determine the DataDog domain.
• tags - A comma separated string of tags to be included with each log entry when sending to Datadog
• source - The source of the logs, typically the technology the log originated. See reserved attributes. Defaults to nodejs
• additionalTransports - Any additional winston transports to be added to the logger. Setting transports in the options will result in the default transports been overridden.
• Any winston logger options
  • Some are defaulted to the following:
    • level - info
    • format - winston.format.json()
    • exitOnError - false
    • transports - Console Transport and HTTP Transport

Metric Client

The metric client instantiation either returns datadog-metrics metric client with some additional logic for handling whether sampling of metrics. The sampling logic will take a unique key and a sampling rate, the key will be hashed and the hash will be used to determine if the metric should be sent to DataDog.

Using require to import dependencies

const client = require('@gymshark/datadog-client');

const metrics = client.metrics({
  apiKey: 'dd-api-key',
  prefix: 'test'
});

metrics.increment('api.call', 1, ['env:develop']);

Using import to import dependencies

import client from '@gymshark/datadog-client';

const metrics = client.metrics({
    apiKey: 'dd-api-key',
    prefix: 'test'
});

metrics.increment('api.call', 1, ['env:develop']);

Metric Options

• apiKey - Your DataDog API Key [required]
• prefix - The prefix to be added to all metrics [required]
• ddRegion - The region your DataDog account is in. This is used to determine the DataDog domain.
• samplingEnabled - A boolean to determine if sampling should be enabled. Defaults to false
• samplingKey - A unique string to be used to determine if the metric should be sampled. [required if samplingEnabled is true]
  • The samplingKey is required in cases where you need to instantiate the metric client multiple times in different sandboxes, and you want to ensure that the same sampling setup is provided for each sandbox.
  • And example use case of this is Auth0 actions, where you may have multiple actions running in the same environment, and you want to ensure that the same sampling rate is applied to each action.
• samplingRate - The rate at which metrics should be sampled. This value is a percentage representation of the rate. Defaults to 0
• Any datadog-metrics options