Configuring Datadog in ARM Templates

• Parameters to accept Datadog configuration.
  • DD_API_KEY
  • DD_ENV
  • DD_SERVICE
  • DD_VERSION
  • DD_SITE
• Entries in appSettings underneath Microsoft.Web/sites/config
  • One to one entries for each relevant parameter

To enable features such as Runtime Metrics or Logs Correlation, you can specify these in your appSettings section, or you can pass them as parameters similar to the other values specified in the example below.

{
    ...
    "parameters": {
        ...
        "dd_api_key": {
            "type": "String"
        },
        "dd_env": {
            "type": "String"
        },
        "dd_service": {
            "type": "String"
        },
        "dd_version": {
            "type": "String"
        },
        "dd_site": {
            "defaultValue": "datadoghq.com",
            "type": "String"
        }
    },
    ...
    "resources": [
        ...
        {
            "type": "Microsoft.Web/sites/config",
            ...
            "properties": {
                "appSettings": [
                    {
                        "name": "DD_API_KEY",
                        "value": "[parameters('dd_api_key')]"
                    },
                    {
                        "name": "DD_ENV",
                        "value": "[parameters('dd_env')]"
                    },
                    {
                        "name": "DD_SERVICE",
                        "value": "[parameters('dd_service')]"
                    },
                    {
                        "name": "DD_VERSION",
                        "value": "[parameters('dd_version')]"
                    },
                    {
                        "name": "DD_SITE",
                        "value": "[parameters('dd_site')]"
                    }
                ],
                ...
        },
        ...
        {
            "type": "Microsoft.Web/sites/siteextensions",
            "apiVersion": "2021-01-15",
            "name": "[concat(parameters('site_name'), '/Datadog.AzureAppServices.DotNet')]",
            "location": "[parameters('location')]",
            "dependsOn": [
                "[resourceId('Microsoft.Web/sites', parameters('site_name'))]"
            ]
        }
    ]
}

Pass the relevant parameters to your deployment command:

az deployment group create ... --parameters dd_api_key={{api-key}} dd_env={{env}} dd_service={{service}} dd_version={{version}} dd_site={{datadog-intake}}