Post and Search Events
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Recipe · 2 steps
Post and Search Events
with Datadog
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Post an event then search the Events Explorer for matches.
- Create a new event in the Events Explorer with a title, message, tags, and alert type for visual categorization.
- Search the Events Explorer over the supplied time range to locate the posted event and any related matches.
What you'll need to have ready
- title: The event title displayed in the Events Explorer (max 100 chars).
- message: The event body text with additional details (max 4000 chars).
- host: The hostname to associate with the event.
- tags: List of tags to apply to the event in key:value format.
- alertType: The alert type category (error, warning, info, success, etc.).
- searchQuery: A Datadog events search query (e.g. source:deploy tags:env:prod).
- searchFrom: Start of the search time range (ISO 8601 or relative, e.g. now-1h).
- searchTo: End of the search time range (ISO 8601 or relative, e.g. now).
For your developer
Arazzo workflow datadog:post-and-search-events, 2 operations: CreateEvent → SearchEvents. Specs on APIs.io.