Onboard DataDog to CloudHiro cost optimization platform
Please read until the end before you start.
Creating API Key
- Log into your Datadog account.
- Select Organization Settings when you hover over your Datadog user.
- Go to API Keys.
- Enter API Key (for example
Cloudhiro-costi-api-key) and click Create Key. - Copy the new API Key and save it for later.
Creating Application Key
- Go to Organization Settings → Application Keys.
- Enter Application Key (for example
Cloudhiro-costi-app-key) and click Create Key. - Copy the new Application Key and save it for later.
Configure API Key Scope
- API keys are created by default without any scope.
- To scope the API key, click Edit under the scope section.
- Please choose the following scopes and click save:
- Not Scoped - Highest read-only access. Grant access to cost, default tags, custom tags.
- Usage_read - Grant CloudHiro read-only access to cost with breakdowns, sub-products, regions, organizations, etc.
- hosts_read - Grant CloudHiro read-only access to hosts and tags on hosts.
- Metrics_read, timeseries_query - Grant read-only access also to Datadog default tags, like "service", "status".
- monitor_read, dashboard_read - Grant CloudHiro read-only access to show you cost optimization recommendations.
Connect to CloudHiro
- At the moment, we still do not have a full UI for inserting the API key + APP Key.
- Please contact your CSM and share those keys so they can enable it for you.
That’s it!
We are done setting up. You can now ask your partner for a tour of CloudHiro and the CloudHiro visualizer.