Collect metrics with Datadog and the Prometheus plugin

This is a Konnect tutorial and requires a Konnect personal access token.

1. Create a new personal access token by opening the Konnect PAT page and selecting Generate Token.

2. Export your token to an environment variable:

    export KONNECT_TOKEN='YOUR_KONNECT_PAT'
   

3. Run the quickstart script to automatically provision a Control Plane and Data Plane, and configure your environment:

    curl -Ls https://get.konghq.com/quickstart | bash -s -- -k $KONNECT_TOKEN -e KONG_STATUS_LISTEN=0.0.0.0:8100 -p 8100:8100 --deck-output
   

   This sets up a Konnect Control Plane named quickstart, provisions a local Data Plane, and prints out the following environment variable exports:

    export DECK_KONNECT_TOKEN=$KONNECT_TOKEN
    export DECK_KONNECT_CONTROL_PLANE_NAME=quickstart
    export KONNECT_CONTROL_PLANE_URL=https://us.api.konghq.com
    export KONNECT_PROXY_URL='http://localhost:8000'
   

   Copy and paste these into your terminal to configure your session.

This tutorial requires Kong Gateway Enterprise. If you don’t have Kong Gateway set up yet, you can use the quickstart script with an enterprise license to get an instance of Kong Gateway running almost instantly.

1. Export your license to an environment variable:

    export KONG_LICENSE_DATA='LICENSE-CONTENTS-GO-HERE'
   

2. Run the quickstart script:

    curl -Ls https://get.konghq.com/quickstart | bash -s -- -e KONG_LICENSE_DATA 
   

   Once Kong Gateway is ready, you will see the following message:

    Kong Gateway Ready
   

decK is a CLI tool for managing Kong Gateway declaratively with state files. To complete this tutorial you will first need to install decK.

For this tutorial, you’ll need Kong Gateway entities, like Gateway Services and Routes, pre-configured. These entities are essential for Kong Gateway to function but installing them isn’t the focus of this guide. Follow these steps to pre-configure them:

1. Run the following command:

   echo '
   _format_version: "3.0"
   services:
     - name: example-service
       url: http://httpbin.konghq.com/anything
   routes:
     - name: example-route
       paths:
       - "/anything"
       service:
         name: example-service
   ' | deck gateway apply -
   

To learn more about entities, you can read our entities documentation.

For this tutorial, you’ll need to configure the following:

• A Datadog account
• Install the Datadog Agent by navigating to the Agent Installation page or Integration > Install agents in the Datadog UI.
• Your Datadog API key and app key. You can find these in the Datadog UI in Organization settings.

Set the following as environment variables:

export DD_API_KEY='YOUR-API-KEY'
export DD_APP_KEY='YOUR-APPLICATION-KEY'
export DD_SITE_API_URL='YOUR-API-SITE-URL'

• Some distributions require you to modify the datadog.yaml file and add your API key and Datadog site URL. Ensure this file is configured correctly or Datadog won’t be able to scrape metrics.
• Your Datadog site API URL varies depending on the region you’re using. For example, for the US5 region, the URL would be https://api.us5.datadoghq.com.