Functions/Send-DatadogEvent.ps1
<# .SYNOPSIS Connect to Datadog API and send to the event stream .DESCRIPTION Send events to datadog .EXAMPLE $Tags = @("tag1:value1","tag2:value2","tag3:value3") | ConvertTo-Json Send-DatadogEvent -Title "my title" -Message "this is an event content" -Tags $Tags #> function Send-DatadogEvent { param( [Parameter(Mandatory=$false)] [string]$Api_Key = $env:Datadog_API_Key, [string]$Title, [string]$Message, [ValidateSet("Normal","Low")] [string]$Priority = "Normal", [string]$Tags, [ValidateSet("Error","Warning","Success","Info")] [string]$Type = "Info" ) $Body = @" { "title": "$Title", "text": "$Message", "priority": "$Priority", "tags": $Tags, "alert_type": "$Type" } "@ $url = "https://app.datadoghq.com/api/v1/events?api_key=$Api_Key" # debug # $jsonObject = $Body | ConvertFrom-Json $results = Invoke-RestMethod -Uri $url -Body $Body -Method Post $results = $results | ConvertFrom-Json | Select-Object -ExpandProperty event $results } |