datadog-light


Lightweight SDK to access Datadog API

Install

Install with npm:

$ npm install --save datadog-light

Usage

``js
import Datadog from 'datadog-light';

const dd = Datadog('DATADOG_API_KEY');

dd.DistributionMetric.enqueue('metric.name', [new Date() / 1]);
dd.DistributionMetric.flush();
``

All input is validated using Joi.

Functions

$3

Initialize this sdk with a Datadog api key. Provided tags are sent with all metrics without having to specify them again.

$3

#### enqueue(metric: String, Array[Unix] | Object(Unix: Count), { tags: Array = [] })

Enqueue distribution metric counts

#### flush(): Promise

Flush all metric events currently enqueued.

Why does this package exist?

This package was built to be used in serverless environments where state is hard to come by. Convenient when e.g. tracking certain actions within an AWS Lambda function.