The Topology Map widget displays a visualization of data sources and their relationships to help understand how data flows through your architecture.
Setup
Configuration
Choose the data to graph:
- Service Map: The node in the center of the widget represents the mapped service. Services that call the mapped service are shown with arrows from the caller to the service. To learn more about the Service Map, reference the Service Map feature of APM.
Enter a title for your graph.
API
This widget can be used with the Dashboards API. See the following table for the widget JSON schema definition:
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The flag for toggling context menu link visibility.
The label for the custom link URL. Keep the label short and descriptive. Use metrics and tags as variables.
The URL of the custom link. URL must include http or https. A relative URL must start with /.
The label ID that refers to a context menu link. Can be logs, hosts, traces, profiles, processes, containers, or rum.
One or more Topology requests.
Query to service-based topology data sources like the service map or data streams.
Name of the data source
Allowed enum values: data_streams,service_map
Your environment and primary tag (or * if enabled for your account).
Widget request type.
Allowed enum values: topology
How to align the text on the widget.
Allowed enum values: center,left,right
Type of the topology map widget.
Allowed enum values: topology_map
default: topology_map
{
"custom_links": [
{
"is_hidden": false,
"label": "Search logs for {{host}}",
"link": "https://app.datadoghq.com/logs?query={{host}}",
"override_label": "logs"
}
],
"requests": [
{
"query": {
"data_source": "string",
"filters": [
"env:prod",
"az:us-east"
],
"service": "myService"
},
"request_type": "string"
}
],
"title": "string",
"title_align": "string",
"title_size": "string",
"type": "topology_map"
}
Further Reading
Additional helpful documentation, links, and articles:
