datadog-sync-cli

Datadog cli tool to sync resources across organizations.

Table of Contents

• Quick Start
• Purpose
• Installing
  • Installing from source
  • Installing from Releases
    • MacOS and Linux
    • Windows
  • Using docker and building the image
• Usage
  • API URL
  • Filtering
    • Top resources level filtering
    • Per resource level filtering
      • SubString and ExactMatch Deprecation
  • Config file
  • Cleanup flag
  • State Files
  • Supported resources
• Best practices

Quick Start

See Installing section for guides on how to install and setup the tool.

Run the import command to read the specified resources from the source organization and store them locally into JSON files in the directory resources/source.

Then, you can run the sync command which will use the stored files from previous import command (unless --force-missing-dependencies flag is passed) to create/modify the resources on the destination organization. The pushed resources are saved in the directory resources/destination.

Note: The tool uses the resources directory as the source of truth for determining what resources need to be created and modified. Hence, this directory should not be removed or corrupted.

Example Usage

# Import resources from parent organization and store them locally
$ datadog-sync import \
    --source-api-key="..." \
    --source-app-key="..." \
    --source-api-url="https://api.datadoghq.com"

> 2024-03-14 14:53:54,280 - INFO - Starting import...
> ...
> 2024-03-14 15:00:46,100 - INFO - Finished import

# Check diff output to see what resources will be created/modified
$ datadog-sync diffs \
    --destination-api-key="..." \
    --destination-app-key="..." \
    --destination-api-url="https://api.datadoghq.eu"

> 2024-03-14 15:46:22,014 - INFO - Starting diffs...
> ...
> 2024-03-14 14:51:15,379 - INFO - Finished diffs

# Sync the resources to the child organization from locally stored files and save the output locally
$ datadog-sync sync \
    --destination-api-key="..." \
    --destination-app-key="..." \
    --destination-api-url="https://api.datadoghq.eu"

> 2024-03-14 14:55:56,535 - INFO - Starting sync...
> ...
> 2024-03-14 14:56:00,797 - INFO - Finished sync: 1 successes, 0 errors

Purpose

The purpose of the datadog-sync-cli package is to provide an easy way to sync Datadog resources across Datadog organizations.

Note: this tool does not, nor is intended, for migrating intake data such as ingested logs, metrics, etc.

The source organization will not be modified, but the destination organization will have resources created and updated by the sync command.

Installing

Installing from source

Note:: Instlling from source requires Python >= v3.9

1. Clone the project repo and CD into the directory git clone https://github.com/DataDog/datadog-sync-cli.git; cd datadog-sync-cli
2. Install datadog-sync-cli tool using pip pip install .
3. Invoke the cli tool using datadog-sync <command> <options>

Installing from Releases

MacOS and Linux

1. Download the executable from the Releases page
2. Provide the executable with executable permission chmod +x datadog-sync-cli-{system-name}-{machine-type}
3. Move the executable to your bin directory sudo mv datadog-sync-cli-{system-name}-{machine-type} /usr/local/bin/datadog-sync
4. Invoke the CLI tool using datadog-sync <command> <options>

Windows

1. Download the executable with extension .exe from the Releases page
2. Add the directory containing the exe file to your path
3. Invoke the CLI tool in cmd/powershell using the file name and omitting the extension: datadog-sync-cli-windows-amd64 <command> <options>

Using docker and building the image

1. Clone the project repo and CD into the directory git clone https://github.com/DataDog/datadog-sync-cli.git; cd datadog-sync-cli
2. Build the provided Dockerfile docker build . -t datadog-sync
3. Run the Docker image using entrypoint below:

docker run --rm -v <PATH_TO_WORKING_DIR>:/datadog-sync:rw \
  -e DD_SOURCE_API_KEY=<DATADOG_API_KEY> \
  -e DD_SOURCE_APP_KEY=<DATADOG_APP_KEY> \
  -e DD_SOURCE_API_URL=<DATADOG_API_URL> \
  -e DD_DESTINATION_API_KEY=<DATADOG_API_KEY> \
  -e DD_DESTINATION_APP_KEY=<DATADOG_APP_KEY> \
  -e DD_DESTINATION_API_URL=<DATADOG_API_URL> \
  datadog-sync:latest <command> <options>

The docker run command mounts a specified <PATH_TO_WORKING_DIR> working directory to the container.

Usage

API URL

Available URL's for the source and destination API URLs are:

• https://api.datadoghq.com
• https://api.datadoghq.eu
• https://api.us5.datadoghq.com
• https://api.us3.datadoghq.com
• https://api.ddog-gov.com
• https://api.ap1.datadoghq.com

For all available regions, see Getting Started with Datadog Sites.

Filtering

Filtering is done on two levels, at top resources level and per individual resource level using --resources and --filter respectively.

Top resources level filtering

By default all resources are imported, synced, etc. If you would like to perform actions on a specific top level resource, or subset of resources, use --resources option. For example, the command datadog-sync import --resources="dashboard_lists,dashboards" will import ALL dashboards and dashboard lists in your Datadog organization.

Per resource level filtering

Individual resources can be further filtered using the --filter flag. For example, the following command datadog-sync import --resources="dashboards,dashboard_lists" --filter='Type=dashboard_lists;Name=name;Value=My custom list', will import ALL dashboards and ONLY dashboard lists with the name attribute equal to My custom list.

Filter option (--filter) accepts a string made up of key=value pairs separated by ;.

--filter 'Type=<resource>;Name=<attribute_name>;Value=<attribute_value>;Operator=<operator>'

Available keys:

• Type: Resource such as Monitors, Dashboards, and more. [required]
• Name: Attribute key to filter on. This can be any attribute represented in dot notation (such as attributes.user_count). [required]
• Value: Regex to filter attribute value by. Note: special regex characters need to be escaped if filtering by raw string. [required]
• Operator: Available operators are below. All invalid operator's default to ExactMatch.
  • Not: Match not equal to Value.
  • SubString (Deprecated): Sub string matching. (This operator will be removed in future releases. See SubString and ExactMatch Deprecation section.)
  • ExactMatch (Deprecated): Exact string match. (This operator will be removed in future releases. See SubString and ExactMatch Deprecation section.)

By default, if multiple filters are passed for the same resource, OR logic is applied to the filters. This behavior can be adjusted using the --filter-operator option.

SubString and ExactMatch Deprecation

In future releases the SubString and ExactMatch Operator will be removed. This is because the Value key supports regex so both of these scenarios are covered by just writing the appropriate regex. Below is an example:

Let's take the scenario where you would like to filter for monitors that have the filter test in the name attribute:

Operator	Command
SubString	--filter 'Type=monitors;Name=name;Value=filter test;Operator=SubString'
Using Value	--filter 'Type=monitors;Name=name;Value=.*filter test.*
ExactMatch	--filter 'Type=monitors;Name=name;Value=filter test;Operator=ExactMatch'
Using Value	--filter 'Type=monitors;Name=name;Value=^filter test$

Config file

A Custom config text file can be passed in place of options.

This is an example config file:

# config

destination_api_url="https://api.datadoghq.eu"
destination_api_key="<API_KEY>"
destination_app_key="<APP_KEY>"
source_api_key="<API_KEY>"
source_app_key="<APP_KEY>"
source_api_url="https://api.datadoghq.com"
filter=["Type=Dashboards;Name=title;Value=Test screenboard", "Type=Monitors;Name=tags;Value=sync:true"]

Then, run: datadog-sync import --config config

Cleanup flag

The tools sync command provides a cleanup flag (--cleanup). Passing the cleanup flag will delete resources from the destination organization which have been removed from the source organization. The resources to be deleted are determined based on the difference between the state files of source and destination organization.

For example, ResourceA and ResourceB are imported and synced, followed by deleting ResourceA from the source organization. Running the import command will update the source organizations state file to only include ResourceB. The following sync --cleanup=Force command will now delete ResourceA from the destination organization.

State files

A resources directory is generated in the current working directory of the user. This directory contains json mapping of resources between the source and destination organization. To avoid duplication and loss of mapping, this directory should be retained between tool usage.

When running againts multiple destination organizations, a seperate working directory should be used to ensure seperation of data.

Supported resources

Resource	Description
dashboard_lists	Sync Datadog dashboard lists.
dashboards	Sync Datadog dashboards.
downtime_schedules	Sync Datadog downtimes.
downtimes (deprecated)	Sync Datadog downtimes.
host_tags	Sync Datadog host tags.
logs_custom_pipelines (deprecated)	Sync Datadog logs custom pipelines.
logs_indexes	Sync Datadog logs indexes.
logs_indexes_order	Sync Datadog logs indexes order.
logs_metrics	Sync Datadog logs metrics.
logs_pipelines	Sync Datadog logs OOTB integration and custom pipelines.
logs_pipelines_order	Sync Datadog logs pipelines order.
logs_restriction_queries	Sync Datadog logs restriction queries.
metric_percentiles	Sync Datadog metric percentiles.
metric_tag_configurations	Sync Datadog metric tags configurations.
metrics_metadata	Sync Datadog metric metadata.
monitors	Sync Datadog monitors.
notebooks	Sync Datadog notebooks.
powerpacks	Sync Datadog powerpacks.
restriction_policies	Sync Datadog restriction policies.
roles	Sync Datadog roles.
service_level_objectives	Sync Datadog SLOs.
slo_corrections	Sync Datadog SLO corrections.
spans_metrics	Sync Datadog spans metrics.
synthetics_global_variables	Sync Datadog synthetic global variables.
synthetics_private_locations	Sync Datadog synthetic private locations.
synthetics_tests	Sync Datadog synthetic tests.
teams	Sync Datadog teams (excluding users and permissions).
users	Sync Datadog users.

Note: logs_custom_pipelines resource has been deprecated in favor of logs_pipelines resource which supports both logs OOTB integration and custom pipelines. To migrate to the new resource, rename the existing state files from logs_custom_pipelines.json to logs_pipelines.json for both source and destination files.

Best practices

Many Datadog resources are interdependent. For example, some Datadog resource can reference roles and dashboards, which includes widgets that may use Monitors or Synthetics data. The datadog-sync tool syncs these resources in order to ensure dependencies are not broken.

If importing/syncing subset of resources, users should ensure that dependent resources are imported and synced as well.

See Supported resources section below for potential resource dependencies.

Resource	Dependencies
dashboard_lists	dashboards
dashboards	monitors, roles, powerpacks, service_level_objectives
downtime_schedules	monitors
downtimes (deprecated)	monitors
host_tags	-
logs_custom_pipelines (deprecated)	-
logs_indexes	-
logs_indexes_order	logs_indexes
logs_metrics	-
logs_pipelines	-
logs_pipelines_order	logs_pipelines
logs_restriction_queries	roles
metric_percentiles	-
metric_tag_configurations	-
metrics_metadata	-
monitors	roles, service_level_objectives
notebooks	-
powerpacks	monitors, service_level_objectives
restriction_policies	dashboards, service_level_objectives, notebooks, users, roles
roles	-
service_level_objectives	monitors, synthetics_tests
slo_corrections	service_level_objectives
spans_metrics	-
synthetics_global_variables	synthetics_tests
synthetics_private_locations	-
synthetics_tests	synthetics_private_locations, synthetics_global_variables, roles
teams	-
users	roles