Datadog-API-Shell

A few handy Shell scripts leveraging the Datadog API and cURL commands. The examples provided are for the Datadog Synthetics API endpoint. These may be modified for other Datadog APIs.

git clone git@github.com:starryknight620/Datadog-API-Shell.git

Pre-requisites

• A working terminal with cURL installed

• Your Datadog API Key and Application Key in a sticky/note for easy copy/paste. We'll be using them a few times so make sure to have them handy. This will be used to populate the following env vars in your script:

• DD_API_KEY API Keys

• DD_APP_KEY* Application Keys

• *The Application Key is not the same as the application ID used by Datadog RUM SDKs

• Make sure the API Keys and Application Keys have the correct permissions

• jq installed to parse your JSON output, see below for install steps with brew

• If you have brew installed:

brew install jq

• Otherwise, review the steps to install jq here: https://jqlang.github.io/jq/download/

• Run the following commands to make the .sh scripts executable:

chmod +x *.sh

• The following commands will execute the scripts. We'll run them one by one in the following order:

# to create our tests
./synthetics_api.sh 

# to get the test IDs
./get_test.sh 

# to pause the tests from running
./synthetics_bulk_pause.sh