DatadogMetrics

DatadogMetrics provides a convenient wrapper around sending metrics to Datadog in your Ruby application.

Add this line to your application's Gemfile:

gem 'datadog_metrics'

And then execute:

$ bundle

Or install it yourself as:

$ gem install datadog_metrics

For Rails, create an initialiser, eg. config/initializers/datadog_metrics.rb containing something like:

Rails.configuration.datadog_metrics = if ["development", "test"].include? Rails.env
  require "datadog_metrics/logger"
  DatadogMetrics.new(DatadogLogger.new(Datadog::Statsd.new))
else
  DatadogMetrics.new
end

The development/test branch will use the DatadogMetrics built-in logger to log the metrics that would have been sent, rather than logging them to Datadog.

After checking out the repo, run bin/setup to install dependencies. Then, run rake spec to run the tests. You can also run bin/console for an interactive prompt that will allow you to experiment.

To install this gem onto your local machine, run bundle exec rake install. To release a new version, update the version number in version.rb, and then run bundle exec rake release, which will create a git tag for the version, push git commits and tags, and push the .gem file to rubygems.org.

To update it, first bump the version appropriately in the version.rb file. Afterwards build the gem by running:

  gem build datadog_metrics.gemspec

Then either use the rake push rake task to push the gem to rubygems.

DatadogMetrics uses semantic versioning, please respect that when making changes. When you make changes please log these in the CHANGELOG.md file.

Bug reports and pull requests are welcome on GitHub at https://github.com/wjessop/datadog_metrics.

MIT, see LICENSE file.