Integrate Postman with Datadog

Datadog is a monitoring service for cloud-scale applications. It combines data from servers, databases, tools, and services to present a unified view of an entire stack. This integration enables you to configure your Postman Monitors to send metrics to Datadog, where you can visualize and compare them with other metrics.

Setting up a Datadog integration requires a Datadog API key and configuring your Postman monitors. After setting up the integration, you can view real-time alerts based on the results of your monitors.

Get your Datadog API key

1. Sign in to Datadog. Open your Organization Settings interface, then click API Keys.
2. Create a Datadog API key, then copy it so you can use it later.

Configure your Postman Monitors

1. From the Home page, select Integrations.

2. Click Browse All Integrations, then select Datadog.

3. Select Add Integration for Post monitoring results.

4. Configure your integration settings for Datadog:

   • Nickname - A nickname for the integration.
   • Choose workspace - Select the workspace that has your monitor.
   • Choose Monitor - Select the monitor that sends its results to Datadog.
   • Select Datadog region - Select the Datadog region you want to use.
   • Datadog API Key - Enter your Datadog API key.
   • Select the Send events for completed runs or Send metrics for each run checkboxes if you don’t want to send run events or metrics.

5. Click Add Integration to complete the integration.

View data in Datadog

When your monitor runs, the data starts flowing into Datadog.

Once the data is present in Datadog, you can filter it. You can filter results by monitor name or ID, collection name or UID, user name or ID, and environment name or UID (if present). You can also combine different metrics to create a dashboard.

Forward Postman metrics

Postman can forward a wide array of monitor metrics to Datadog. The following table lists the metric, its type, and the metric’s level. For more information about Datadog’s metric collection, see Datadog’s Metrics documentation.

Metrics tags

Postman sends tags to Datadog along with each metric and event. Tags enable you to filter the metric based on various parameters such as monitor name or collection name. The following tags are sent by Postman to Datadog:

Update existing integrations

Postman is a Datadog Technology Partner, and Postman’s integration is available in Datadog’s Integrations. To enable the partnership, the metrics produced by Postman were renamed, as detailed in the Forward Postman metrics section. If you have integrations created before the integration listing on Datadog, you must update them to take advantage of the integration listing.

To update existing integrations, do the following:

1. Go to the Post monitoring results page.

2. Select the integration you want to upgrade.

3. Click Update Now, then click Update Integration on the confirmation box to upgrade the integration.

   

4. Click Confirm.

The updated integration has the following benefits:

• The Postman metrics for the integration are no longer treated as Custom Metrics in Datadog, which means they’re free. (Custom metrics on Datadog are charged.)
• Datadog provides a default dashboard that you can use to observe the monitor. Change the monitor_name variable to the monitor for which you want to observe the dashboard.