Datadog Timeboard: Metadata key

[skyzyx]

Terraform Version

Terraform v0.11.7
+ provider.aws v1.8.0
+ provider.datadog v1.0.3

Affected Resource(s)

Please list the resources as a list, for example:

• https://www.terraform.io/docs/providers/datadog/r/timeboard.html

Terraform Configuration Files

Trying to take the JSON config from a dashboard I created in Datadog, and port it to HCL so that I can manage it with Terraform. It appears that the metadata key is not supported yet by this provider.

The JSON config for Datadog is:

{
  "requests": [
    {
      "q": "sum:aws.trustedadvisor.green_checks, sum:aws.trustedadvisor.yellow_checks, sum:aws.trustedadvisor.red_checks",
      "type": "bars",
      "style": {
        "palette": "dog_classic",
        "type": "solid",
        "width": "normal"
      },
      "metadata": {
        "sum:aws.trustedadvisor.green_checks": {
          "alias": "OK"
        },
        "sum:aws.trustedadvisor.yellow_checks": {
          "alias": "WARN"
        },
        "sum:aws.trustedadvisor.red_checks": {
          "alias": "ERROR"
        }
      },
      "conditional_formats": []
    }
  ],
  "viz": "timeseries",
  "autoscale": true
}

[vineethvijay]

+1
This would be a nice feature to have, for making meaningful metadata over the graph rather than the query metric names.

[LozanoMatheus]

+1

[andreitchaltsev]

+1 to the feature.
For complicated queries the formulas may be unreadable. Having nice alias would be very helpful.

[andreafalzetti]

Anyone looking into this?

[cyprianos]

+1

[michaelfoley1]

+1

[trp956s]

+1

[JohnB]

+111

[infrat]

+1

[bkabrda]

Hey folks, I'm working on this right now. As the first step, I opened a PR to add support to the go client library: zorkian/go-datadog-api#241 - implementing this in the provider should be pretty easy after that PR is accepted.

[bkabrda]

So I seem to be running into an issue with complex nested structures handling in terraform while trying to implement this in the provider. Basically it seems I'm hitting [1]. I'm currently in discussion with Hasicorp folks to figure out a workable solution for this case. I'll keep this issue updated with the progress. Thanks for your patience everyone!

[1] https://github.com/hashicorp/terraform/issues/6215