dd gif maker

make gifs of your dd timeseries queries

setup

• clone repository
• run brew install imagemagick
• run brew install graphicsmagick
• run npm install
• add your Datadog API_KEY and APP_KEY to the .env file in this repository. DatadogHQ is a monitoring platform that's free to sign up for at https://www.datadoghq.com/.

example usage

dd_gif_maker $ node index.js --q='system.cpu.user{*}' --n="example_timeseries_viz" --a="avg" --t="1_hour"

=>
dd embed id: xxxxx7472
successfully revoked dd embed id: xxxxx7472
done creating example_timeseries_viz.gif
done deleting snapshot pngs

example gif output

TODO

• queries with multiple lines
• multiple queries
• area charts (bar charts are canvas, probably out of scope)
• event overlay
• template variables