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Datadog Event Buildkite Plugin

A Buildkite plugin for sending event to datadog

It contains a command hook, and tests using plugin-tester.

Usage:

# - Your production deployment step here:
#  ...
#  ...

- wait # wait for the production deployment to complete

- label: ':datadog: Send deployment complete event to datadog'
  branches: 'master'
  plugins:
    # We use seek-oss/aws-sm plugin to retrieve the datadog api key stored in aws secret manager
    seek-oss/aws-sm#v1.0.0:
      env:
        DATADOG_API_KEY: arn of the secret
    seek-oss/datadog-event#v0.0.4:
      title: $BUILDKITE_PIPELINE_SLUG deployed by $BUILDBOX_BUILD_CREATOR
      tags: event-type:deployment,branch:$BUILDKITE_BRANCH # multiple tags can be sent to datadog
      env: DATADOG_API_KEY # DATADOG_API_KEY contains plain text value of the api key
  agents:
    queue: xxx-prod:cicd # agent need to be able to assume role to fetch the datadog api key from ssm

License

MIT (see LICENSE)

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