Datadog Backup

Use datadog_backup to backup your datadog account. Currently supports

- dashboards
- monitors

Additional features may be built out over time.

Installation

gem install datadog_backup

or

gem build datadog_backup.gemspec
gem install datadog_backup-*.gem

Usage

DATADOG_API_KEY=example123 DATADOG_APP_KEY=example123 datadog_backup <backup|diffs|restore> [--backup-dir /path/to/backups] [--debug] [--monitors-only] [--dashboards-only] [--diff-format color|html|html_simple] [--no-color] [--json]

gem install datadog_backup
export DATADOG_API_KEY=abc123
export DATADOG_APP_KEY=abc123

# Perform backup to optional/path/to/backupdir using YAML encoding
datadog_backup backup --backup-dir optional/path/to/backupdir

# Make some changes

# Just review the changes since last backup
datadog_backup diffs --backup-dir optional/path/to/backupdir

# Review and apply local changes to datadog

datadog_backup restore --backup-dir optional/path/to/backupdir

Environment variables

The following environment variables can be set in order to further customize datadog_backup:

environment variable	description	default
DATADOG_HOST	Describe the API endpoint to connect to (https://api.datadoghq.eu for example)	https://api.datadoghq.com
http_proxy	Instruct Dogapi to connect via a differnt proxy address	none
https_proxy	same as http_proxy	none
dd_proxy_https	same as http_proxy	none

Usage in a Github repo

See example/ for an example implementation as a repo that backs up your Datadog dashboards hourly.

Development

Releases are cut using semantic-release.

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