mikecee / datadog-widget-updater

A small utility to batch update Datadog dashboard widgets.

Datadog Widget Updater

A small utility to batch update Datadog dashboard widgets.

Setting up your Python environment

Create a Python environment and install dependencies.

# Create a Python virtual environment
python3 -m venv venv
# Activate the environment
. venv/bin/activate
# Install dependencies
pip install -r requirements.txt

Usage

This utility can be used in (a) dry-run mode and (b) destructive mode. The former will provide you with a list of dashboard to update and the latter will actually update the dashboards queries.

python --destructive|--dry_run old_metric new_metric

If you wanted to get a list of all dashboards that in which the old_metric value would be updated to new_metric, you would use the --dry_run option. For example, let's say we get an idea of which dashboards would be updated if we swapped system.mem.* for docker.mem.*, you would run:

python --dry_run system.mem docker.mem
# DASHBOARD: Support #293783 - CPU by Nico Suarez-Canton
# URL: /dashboard/b9r-4hb-qin/support-293783---cpu
# UPDATED: False
# DASHBOARD: Support #293783 - Memory by Nico Suarez-Canton
# URL: /dashboard/yrt-6hd-qay/support-293783---memory
# UPDATED: False

In contrast, the --destructive flag will allow you to update the dashboards. The output will be the same but it will confirm the update.

python --destructive system.mem docker.mem
# DASHBOARD: Support #293783 - CPU by Nico Suarez-Canton
# URL: /dashboard/b9r-4hb-qin/support-293783---cpu
# UPDATED: True
# DASHBOARD: Support #293783 - Memory by Nico Suarez-Canton
# URL: /dashboard/yrt-6hd-qay/support-293783---memory
# UPDATED: True