Webhook Payload: Datadog Graphs -> Discord Bot

README.md

Resources

Datadog

• Datadog webhook variables: https://docs.datadoghq.com/integrations/webhooks/

Making discord webhooks

• (note the description field supports markdown)
• Basic webhook setup: https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/how-to-use-discord-webhooks-to-get-notifications-for-your-website-status-on-ubuntu-18-04
• Settings > Integrations > Post messages > pick a channel and copy URL into DD for the next step
• Inspecting payloads (for public data): https://webhook.site/
• embeds: https://anidiots.guide/first-bot/using-embeds-in-messages
• embed payload builder: https://leovoel.github.io/embed-visualizer/
• embed official docs on discord: https://discord.com/developers/docs/resources/channel#embed-object-embed-image-structure

webhook.json

{
   "embeds":[
      {
         "title":"$EVENT_TITLE",
         "url":"$LINK",
         "description":"$EVENT_MSG",
         "thumbnail":{
            "url":"$SNAPSHOT"
         }
      },
      {
         "fields":[
            {
               "name":"tags",
               "value":"$TAGS",
               "inline":true
            }
         ]
      }
   ]
}