Datadog

Use the Datadog sink when your team already reads events and metrics in Datadog. This page explains what LoadStrike sends there and how to configure it.

What this page helps you do

What this page helps you do

Use the Datadog sink when your team already reads events and metrics in Datadog. This page explains what LoadStrike sends there and how to configure it.

Who this is for

Teams exporting final run data and realtime metrics into supported observability backends.

Prerequisites

  • A run result or sink destination you want to wire into the wider observability stack

By the end

A sink-specific setup path that stays tied to the same LoadStrike report model.

Use this page when

Use this page when the local report is not the only destination and you need to wire realtime or final export into a supported sink.

Visual guide

Annotated report diagram showing summary, scenario views, and failure analysis.
The same run result powers summary reading, failure diagnosis, grouped correlation, and export flows.

Sample Report Data Rows

Scope    Scenario     Result Count RPS  LatencyP50Ms LatencyP80Ms LatencyP85Ms LatencyP90Ms LatencyP95Ms LatencyP99Ms
Scenario reports-demo OK     675   15.0 21.4         30.2         33.0         36.8         48.6         72.1

LatencyTable Scenario     Result Count LatencyP50Ms LatencyP95Ms
LatencyTable reports-demo OK     675   21.4         48.6
LatencyTable reports-demo FAIL   12    35.9         79.2

StatusCode Result Percent
200        OK     97.48
500        FAIL   2.52

FailedStatus Scope     Scenario     Step StatusCode Count Percent
FailedStatus Scenario  reports-demo      500       12    1.75

Reporting

Realtime reporting

Choose the built-in sink page that matches the backend your team already runs, or open Custom Reporting when you need to implement your own destination. Each tab opens a dedicated page with the settings, behavior, and lifecycle details for that reporting path.

Guide

When To Use Datadog

Choose Datadog when the team already uses Datadog dashboards, queries, and alerting for both event streams and metric time series.

What LoadStrike Sends

DatadogReportingSink sends reporting events to Datadog Logs and projected metrics to Datadog Metrics. Final export also carries final metric snapshots and run-result metadata such as report files, disabled sink names, and sink error details.

Configuration Surface

Configure the sink in code or through LoadStrike:ReportingSinks:Datadog. Common options include BaseUrl, ApiKey, ApplicationKey, StaticTags, and StaticAttributes.

Downloads

Datadog setup is supported through the downloadable JSON infra-config template and the shared observability asset guide.

Datadog realtime reporting

Use DatadogReportingSink when your team wants events in Datadog Logs and projected metrics in Datadog Metrics.

If you run these examples locally, add a valid runner key before execution starts. Set it with WithRunnerKey("...") or the config key LoadStrike:RunnerKey.

HTML reports also include the top-right Light/Dark theme toggle. Light is the default report theme.

Datadog Sink

using LoadStrike;

var datadogSink = new DatadogReportingSink(new DatadogReportingSinkOptions
{
    BaseUrl = "https://api.datadoghq.com",
    ApiKey = "dd-api-key",
    ApplicationKey = "dd-app-key",
    StaticTags =
    {
        ["environment"] = "staging",
        ["service"] = "orders-api"
    },
    StaticAttributes =
    {
        ["team"] = "performance"
    }
});

LoadStrikeRunner.RegisterScenarios(scenario)
    .WithReportingSinks(datadogSink)
    .WithRunnerKey("rkl_your_local_runner_key")
    .Run();

DatadogReportingSinkOptions fields

This page explains only the Datadog sink behavior that LoadStrike currently ships.

ConfigurationSectionPath

Defaults to LoadStrike:ReportingSinks:Datadog when binding from infra config.

BaseUrl

Required Datadog base URL.

LogsEndpointPath

Path used for Datadog log ingestion.

MetricsEndpointPath

Path used for Datadog metric ingestion.

ApiKey

Required Datadog API key.

ApplicationKey

Optional ApplicationKey used when the target Datadog environment expects it.

Source / Service / Host

Metadata fields used on exported Datadog events and metrics.

TimeoutSeconds

HTTP timeout for Datadog requests.

StaticTags

Additional tags applied to exported telemetry.

StaticAttributes

Additional event attributes applied to exported Datadog log entries.

{
  "LoadStrike": {
    "ReportingSinks": {
      "Datadog": {
        "BaseUrl": "https://api.datadoghq.com",
        "ApiKey": "dd-api-key",
        "ApplicationKey": "dd-app-key"
      }
    }
  }
}

Downloads and templates

Use the Datadog template when you want to load sink settings from infra config instead of setting every value in code.

Datadog template JSON

A ready-to-edit infra-config template for DatadogReportingSink.

Download file

Observability asset guide

A combined guide for sink templates and Grafana starter assets.

Download file