Overview

Datadog can collect and display errors, response time, duration, latency, as well as monitor the performance of API traffic in Tyk to discover issues in your APIs or consumers.

Tyk has a built-in Datadog integration that collects metrics from Tyk API gateway.

Tyk API gateway records all the traffic that it’s processing. It sends that information to Datadog and builds dashboards around it.

How it works

Tyk pump writes custom application metrics and sends them into Datadog by sending them to DogStatsD, a metrics aggregation service bundled with the Datadog Agent. DogStatsD implements the StatsD protocol which adds a few Datadog-specific extensions including the Histogram metric type, that is in use by Tyk-gateway.

Tyk-gateway uses Tyk-pump to send the analytics it generated to Datadog.

When running the Datadog Agent, DogstatsD gets the request_time metric from Tyk-pump in real time, per request, so you can understand the usage of your APIs and get the flexibility of aggregating by various parameters such as date, version, returned code, method etc.

The custom metric Tyk is using is of type DD_HISTOGRAM_AGGREGATES.

Setup

Tyk’s integration is included in the tyk-pump package, so you only need to set configuration in the pump.conf (and there’s no need to install anything on your Tyk platform).

Installation

Installation

For this integration you need to have a running Tyk installation. You can install Tyk self managed or Tyk OSS. Both options include the tyk-pump.

Install Datadog Agent

Install the Datadog Agent in your environment.

Run the Datadog Agent in your K8s cluster, as a Docker container, on your Mac, or any way as long as Tyk pump is able to access it.

For containerized environments, see the Autodiscovery Integration Templates for more guidance. To validate that the changes are applied, run the Agent’s status subcommands

Configuration

Tyk-pump

To set a Datadog pump follow the instructions in the DogstatsD section of the pump README.

The following is an example of Datadog pump configuration in pump.conf:

pump.conf:
...
   "dogstatsd": {
      "type": "dogstatsd",
      "meta": {
        "address": "dd-agent:8126",
        "namespace": "tyk",
        "async_uds": true,
        "async_uds_write_timeout_seconds": 2,
        "buffered": true,
        "buffered_max_messages": 32,
        "sample_rate": 0.9999999999,
        "tags": [
          "method",
          "response_code",
          "api_version",
          "api_name",
          "api_id",
          "org_id",
          "tracked",
          "path",
          "oauth_id"
        ]
      }
    },

This example was taken from Tyk-demo project, an open source project that spins up a full Tyk platform in one command and offers ready-made examples, including the Datadog example. To run this integration, use up.sh analytics-datadog.

Setup Datadog Agent

Tyk’s integration uses DogstatsD. It is a metrics aggregation service bundled with the Datadog Agent. DogStatsD implements the StatsD protocol and adds a few Datadog-specific extensions. Tyk is using Histogram metric type.

Set up the following Datadog and DogStatsD environment variables in your environment:

After setting environment variables listed above, set up the agent with DogstatsD.

Restart the Agent after setup.

Validation

Create a dashboard or import the sample and add a widget. In the section Graph your data under the metric option, start typing the namespace you chose for the pump in the config pump.conf under dogstatsd.namespace.

In the example above, it’s tyk. Once you start typing, all the available metrics are displayed.

Data Collected

Metrics

Dashboards

With Datadog, you can create dashboards that display statistics about your API services and their consumption.

Here’s an example for such a dashboard:

Note: You can import the above dashboard and use it as an example or baseline for your own dashboard.

Events

The Tyk integration does not include any events.

Service Checks

The Tyk integration does not include any service checks.

Troubleshooting

Need help? Contact Datadog support.