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  4. Datadog
  5. Datadog Setup

Datadog Setup

The Pulumi Datadog provider uses the Datadog SDK to manage and provision resources.

Pulumi relies on the Datadog SDK to authenticate requests from your computer to Datadog. Your credentials are never sent to pulumi.com.

The Pulumi Datadog Provider needs to be configured with Datadog credentials before it can be used to create resources.

Configuring Credentials

Once obtained, there are two ways to communicate your authorization tokens to Pulumi:

  1. Set the environment variables DATADOG_API_KEY and DATADOG_APP_KEY:

    $ export DATADOG_API_KEY=XXXXXXXXXXXXXX
$ export DATADOG_APP_KEY=YYYYYYYYYYYYYY

  2. Set them using configuration, if you prefer that they be stored alongside your Pulumi stack for easy multi-user access:

    $ pulumi config set datadog:apiKey XXXXXXXXXXXXXX --secret
$ pulumi config set datadog:appKey YYYYYYYYYYYYYY --secret

Remember to pass --secret when setting datadog:apiKey and datadog:appKey so that they are properly encrypted. A full set of configuration parameters can be found listed on the Project README.