This is an extremely simple PHP datadogstatsd client

Clone repository at github.com/DataDog/php-datadogstatsd

require './libraries/datadogstatsd.php';

To increment things:

DataDogStatsD::increment('your.data.point');
DataDogStatsD::increment('your.data.point', .5);
DataDogStatsD::increment('your.data.point', 1, array('tagname' => 'value'));

To decrement things:

DataDogStatsD::decrement('your.data.point');

To time things:

$start_time = microtime(true);
run_function();
DataDogStatsD::timing('your.data.point', microtime(true) - $start_time);

DataDogStatsD::timing('your.data.point', microtime(true) - $start_time, 1, array('tagname' => 'value'));

Requires PHP >= 5.3.0 with the curl-php5 extension

To submit events, you'll need to first configure the library with your Datadog credentials, since the event function submits directly to Datadog instead of sending to a local dogstatsd instance.

$apiKey = 'myApiKey';
$appKey = 'myAppKey';

DataDogStatsD::configure($apiKey, $appKey);
DataDogStatsD::event('A thing broke!', array(
	'alert_type'      => 'error',
	'aggregation_key' => 'test_aggr'
));
DataDogStatsD::event('Now it is fixed.', array(
	'alert_type'      => 'success',
	'aggregation_key' => 'test_aggr'
));

This is what you'd see your Datadog event stream:

You can find your api and app keys in the API tab.

For more documentation on the optional values of events, see http://docs.datadoghq.com/api/#events/.

Note that while sending metrics with this library is fast since it's sending locally over UDP, sending events will be slow because it's sending data directly to Datadog over HTTP. We'd like to improve this in the near future.

Alex Corley - [email protected]