Table: datadog_host - Query Datadog Hosts using SQL

Datadog is a monitoring and analytics platform for cloud-scale applications, providing full-stack observability through logs, metrics, and traces. It allows you to monitor, troubleshoot, and optimize application performance, as well as enhance cross-team collaboration. Datadog Hosts are the individual servers, containers, or devices that your application runs on, and this service provides detailed information about each host.

Table Usage Guide

The datadog_host table provides insights into each host monitored by Datadog. As a DevOps engineer, explore host-specific details through this table, including host names, metrics, and associated metadata. Utilize it to uncover information about hosts, such as their status, uptime, and the apps running on them.

Examples

Basic info

Explore which Datadog hosts are currently active and when they last reported in. This is useful to maintain an up-to-date understanding of your system's operational status and to quickly identify any potentially muted or unresponsive hosts.

select
  name,
  id,
  up,
  last_reported_time,
  is_muted,
  jsonb_pretty(aliases) as aliases
from
  datadog_host;

select
  name,
  id,
  up,
  last_reported_time,
  is_muted,
  aliases
from
  datadog_host;

Find hosts that don't use systemd and contain the AWS region `ap-southeast-2` in their DNS record

Explore which hosts in your infrastructure are not utilizing the 'systemd' application and are associated with the 'ap-southeast-2' AWS region. This can be beneficial in identifying potential inconsistencies in your system setup and ensuring regional compliance.

select
  name,
  jsonb_pretty(apps) as apps
from
  datadog_host
where
  not apps @> '["systemd"]' :: jsonb
  and name like '%ap-southeast-2%';

select
  name,
  apps
from
  datadog_host
where
  json_typeof(json_extract(apps, '$.systemd')) is null
  and name like '%ap-southeast-2%';

Count instance sizes of each host by their attached AWS tags

Analyze your AWS-hosted instances to understand the distribution of instance sizes across different hosts. This can help optimize resource allocation and improve cost efficiency.

select
  tags,
  count(tags)
from
  (
    select
      jsonb_array_elements_text(tags_by_source -> 'Amazon Web Services') as tags
    from
      datadog_host
  ) as foo
where
  tags like '%instance-type%'
group by
  tags;

select
  tags,
  count(tags)
from
  (
    select
      json_extract(tags_by_source, '$."Amazon Web Services"') as tags
    from
      datadog_host
  ) as foo
where
  tags like '%instance-type%'
group by
  tags;

List hosts that have reported metrics within the last 10 minutes

Explore which hosts have recently reported metrics to stay updated on their status. This is useful for real-time monitoring and prompt issue detection.

select
  name,
  last_reported_time,
  up
from
  datadog_host
where
  last_reported_time > current_timestamp - interval '10 minutes';

select
  name,
  last_reported_time,
  up
from
  datadog_host
where
  last_reported_time > datetime('now', '-10 minutes');

Schema for datadog_host

Name	Type	Operators	Description
_ctx	jsonb		Steampipe context in JSON form, e.g. connection_name.
aliases	jsonb		An array of aliases that the host is known by such as AWS EC2 instance name, AWS internal IP address etc.
apps	jsonb		An array containing host apps such as system services, containers and more.
aws_name	text		AWS name of the host.
id	text		ID of the host.
is_muted	boolean		Whether or not the host is muted.
last_reported_time	timestamp with time zone		Last time the host reported a metric data point.
meta	jsonb		An object containing host metadata such as operating system and version.
metrics	jsonb		An object containing host metrics such as CPU, iowait and load.
mute_timeout	bigint		The timeout of the mute applied to the host.
name	text	=	Name of the host.
sources	jsonb		An array containing the sources of the host metrics.
tags_by_source	jsonb		An object containing tags for each data source such as AWS, Datadog Agent etc.
up	boolean		Whether the expected metrics for the host are being received or not.

Export

This table is available as a standalone Exporter CLI. Steampipe exporters are stand-alone binaries that allow you to extract data using Steampipe plugins without a database.

You can download the tarball for your platform from the Releases page, but it is simplest to install them with the steampipe_export_installer.sh script:

/bin/sh -c "$(curl -fsSL https://steampipe.io/install/export.sh)" -- datadog

You can pass the configuration to the command with the --config argument:

steampipe_export_datadog --config '<your_config>' datadog_host