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How To: Trigger Codefresh pipeline from Datadog webhook

Overview

You want to trigger the Codefresh pipeline from a Datadog alert.

Details

  1. Open the Webhook integration management page in Datadog:

    datadog

    From here you will first need to add a variable with your Codefresh user API key ( you can generate one here: User settings)

  2. Next, click the ‘New’ button in the Webhook section and fill in the required fields:
    • Name - The Webhook name
    • URL - The Run Pipeline API endpoint, example: https://g.codefresh.io/api/pipelines/run/<Project_Name>%2F<Pipeline_name>

      Note : the ‘/’ symbol in the pipeline name should be URL-encoded as ‘%2F’

    • Payload - The parameters and options, for example:

       {  
 "branch": "main",  
 "variables": {"foo": "bar"},  
 "options": {  
   "noCache": true,  
   "noCfCache": true,  
   "resetVolume": true,  
   "enableNotifications": true  
   }  
 }

      The complete API call description is here: Codefresh-run

    • Custom headers - this will be used for Authentication. The headers in Datadog are accepted in JSON format only, for example:

       {"Authorization": "$APIKEY"}

      The APIKEY is a variable name containing the Codefresh API key you createdcearlier.

  3. Click Save to create a Webhook.

Now you can refer to this Webhook by its name (@webhook-<WEBHOOK_NAME>) on Monitor\Alert creation page in Notify your Team section, for example here: https://app.datadoghq.com/monitors/create/metric