This document provides tips for integrating and monitoring AWS billing metrics using Datadog. It discusses using IAM roles for integration, exploring the aws.billing metric in the Metric Explorer, debugging the Datadog agent, using tags in monitor messages, configuring the agent collection interval, and alternatives to DogStatsD for submitting metrics. The tips are presented in 6 sections and conclude by wishing happy monitoring.

1. DATADOGTIPS #1
Tue Nov 08, 2016
NAOYA NAKAZAWA @n0ts

2. TIPS 1-1

3. AWS INTEGRATION
• USE ROLE Delegation
• IAM
• IAM
😇

4. TIPS 1-1I

5. • Metric Explorer aws.billing.*
• URL exp_metric=aws.billing.estimated_charges
🙆
AWS BILLING METRIC

6. TIPS 1-III

7. AGENT DEBUG
• Agent
$ sudo -u dd-agent dd-agent check http_check
( )
2016-11-08 18:10:49,445 | INFO | dd.collector |
checks.http_check(network_checks.py:105) | StoppingThread Pool
• Agent
$ sudo -u dd-agent /opt/datadog-agent/agent/agent.py info
$ sudo -u dd-agent /opt/datadog-agent/agent/dogstatsd.py info
$ sudo -u dd-agent /opt/datadog-agent/agent/ddagent.py info

8. TIPS 1-Ⅳ

9. MONITOR MESSAGE
•
{{#is_alert}}sample error message @jay@datadog @slack-ops-test{{/is_alert}}

10. {{#is_alert}}{{/is_alert}}
{{#is_alert_recovery}}{{/is_alert_recovery}}
{{#is_match"host.customer" "customer1"}}{{/is_match}}
{{#is_no_data}}{{/is_no_data}}
{{#is_recovery}}{{/is_recovery}}
{{#is_alert_recovery}}{{/is_alert_recovery}}
{{#is_warning_recovery}}{{/is_warning_recovery}}
{{^is_alert}}{{/is_alert}}
{{^is_match}}{{/is_match}}
{{^is_warning}}{{/is_warning}}
{{^is_no_data}}{{/is_no_data}}
{{^is_recovery}}{{/is_recovery}}
{{^is_alert_recovery}}{{/is_alert_recovery}}
{{^is_warning_recovery}}{{/is_warning_recovery}}

11. TIPS 1-Ⅴ

12. AGENT COLLECTION
INTERVAL 1
• Agent
• 60
min_collection_interval: 60

13. AGENT COLLECTION
INTERVAL II
• 50
Threadstats
• Is there an alternative to dogstatd and the api to submit metrics?
Threadstats.
https://help.datadoghq.com/hc/en-us/articles/204590189-Is-there-an-
alternative-to-dogstatsd-and-the-api-to-submit-metrics-Threadstats-

14. TIPS 1-Ⅵ

15. INTEGRATION
• Integration
• Broken! 😇

16. TIPS 1-Ⅵ

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18. 🌏 HAPPY MONITRING 🌏