Symfony datadog integration

Symfony Datadog integration to monitor and track for application errors and send notifications about them.

Benefits

Use datadog-symfony for:

Monitor production applications in realtime.
Application performance insights to see when performance is geting degradated.
Access to the okvpn_datadog.client through the container.
Send notification about errors in Slack, email, telegram, etc.
Create JIRA issue when some alarm/exception triggers using this plugin

Install

Install using composer following the official Composer documentation:

Install via composer:

composer require okvpn/datadog-symfony

And add this bundle to your AppKernel:

<?php

use Symfony\Component\HttpKernel\Kernel;
use Symfony\Component\Config\Loader\LoaderInterface;

class AppKernel extends Kernel
{
    public function registerBundles()
    {
        $bundles = array(
            // ....
            new Okvpn\Bundle\DatadogBundle\OkvpnDatadogBundle(), //Should loaded after framework bundle
        );
    }
    
    public function registerContainerConfiguration(LoaderInterface $loader)
    {
        $loader->load($this->getRootDir().'/config/config_'.$this->getEnvironment().'.yml');
    }
}

Base configuration to enable the datadog client in your config.yml

okvpn_datadog:
    profiling: true
    namespace: app # You app namespace for custome metric app.*, see https://docs.datadoghq.com/developers/metrics/#naming-metrics

Custom metrics that provided by OkvpnDatadogBundle

Where app metrics namespace.

Name	Type	Description
app.exception	counter	Track how many exception occurred in application per second
app.doctrine.median	gauge	Median execute time of sql query (ms.)
app.doctrine.avg	gauge	Avg execute time of sql query (ms.)
app.doctrine.count	rate	Count of sql queries per second
app.doctrine.95percentile	gauge	95th percentile of execute time of sql query (ms.)
app.exception	event	Event then exception is happens
app.http_request	timing	Measure timing how long it takes to fully render a page

Configuration

A more complex setup look like this config.yml:


okvpn_datadog:
    profiling: true       # Default false: enable exception, http request etc.
    namespace: app        # Metric namespace
    port: 8125            # datadog udp port
    hostname: 127.0.0.1
    tags:                 # Default tags which sent with every request
        - example.com
        - cz1
    doctrine: true        # Enable timing for sql query
    exception: all        # Send event on exception
                          #   *all*      - handle all exceptions: logger error context, console error, http error.
                          #   *uncaught* - handle uncaught exceptions: console error, http error.
                          #   *none*     - disable exceptions handler
                          
    dedup_path: null      # Path to save duplicates log records across multiple requests. 
                          # Used to prevent send multiple event on the same error
    
    dedup_keep_time: 86400 # Time in seconds during which duplicate entries should be suppressed after a given log is sent through
    artifacts_path: null   # Long events is aggregate as artifacts, because datadog event size is limited to 4000 characters.
    
    handle_exceptions:     # Skip exceptions
        skip_instanceof:
            - Symfony\Component\Console\Exception\ExceptionInterface
            - Symfony\Component\HttpKernel\Exception\HttpExceptionInterface
        skip_command:     # Skip exception for console command
            - okvpn:message-queue:consume

Usage

$client = $this->container->get('okvpn_datadog.client');

/*
 * Increment/Decriment
 * 
 * Counters track how many times something happens per second, such as page views.
 * @link https://docs.datadoghq.com/developers/dogstatsd/data_types/#counters
 *
 * @param string          $metrics    Metric(s) to increment
 * @param int             $delta      Value to decrement the metric by
 * @param float           $sampleRate Sample rate of metric
 * @param string[]        $tags       List of tags for this metric
 *
 * @return DogStatsInterface
 */
$client->increment('page.views', 1);
$client->increment('page.load', 1, 0.5, ['tag1' => 'http']);

Sets

$consumerPid = getmypid();
$client->set('consumers', $consumerPid);

Timing

$client->timing('http.response_time', 256);

See more metrics here DogStatsInterface

Impact on performance

Datadog bundle use UDP protocol to send custom metrics to DogStatsD collector, that usually running on localhost (127.0.0.1). Because it uses UDP, your application can send metrics without waiting for a response. DogStatsD aggregates multiple data points for each unique metric into a single data point over a period of time called the flush interval and sends it to Datadog where it is stored and available for graphing alongside the rest of your metrics.