Default environment variables for datadog API?

[red8888]

This is how I plugin datadog creds now:

from datadog import initialize, api

options = {'api_key': '9775a026f1ca7d1c6c5af9d94d9595a4',
           'app_key': '87ce4a24b5553d2e482ea8a8500e71b8ad4554ff'}

initialize(**options)

But are there default environment variables for this? For example there would be environment variables I set like DD_APP_KEY and DD_API_KEY and the datadog api just looks for these default environment variables and uses them for me?

Many APIs support this kind of scheme does datadog? For example gcp apis support a GOOGLE_APPLICATION_CREDENTIALS environment variable. Couldn't find anything in the docs

[ssvaddiparthy]

@red8888 this support is in master now. https://github.com/DataDog/datadogpy/blob/master/datadog/__init__.py#L73

[sc68cal]

Hi, can you please update the --help output to reflect the ability to add environment variables? Otherwise the only way people can find them is going to this repository and searching for it

[ssvaddiparthy]

@sc68cal Are you suggesting we have a cli for this? I am a little confused on how you want to use --help option.

[sc68cal]

I created a PR to demonstrate what I was looking for.

[sc68cal]

dog -h
usage: dog [-h] [--config CONFIG] [--api-key API_KEY]
           [--application-key APP_KEY] [--pretty] [--raw] [--timeout TIMEOUT]
           [-v]
           {comment,search,metric,tag,event,monitor,timeboard,screenboard,dashboard_list,host,downtime,service_check}
           ...

Interact with the Datadog API

optional arguments:
  -h, --help            show this help message and exit
  --config CONFIG       location of your dogrc file (default ~/.dogrc)
                        (default: /Users/scolli572/.dogrc)
  --api-key API_KEY     your API key, from
                        https://app.datadoghq.com/account/settings#api You can
                        also set the enviornment variable DATADOG_API_KEY
                        (default: None)
  --application-key APP_KEY
                        your Application key, from
                        https://app.datadoghq.com/account/settings#api You can
                        also set the enviornment variable DATADOG_APP_KEY
                        (default: None)
  --pretty              pretty-print output (suitable for human consumption,
                        less useful for scripting) (default: None)
  --raw                 raw JSON as returned by the HTTP service (default:
                        None)
  --timeout TIMEOUT     time to wait in seconds before timing out an API call
                        (default 10) (default: 10)
  -v, --version         Dog API version

[ssvaddiparthy]

@sc68cal oops my bad sir thanks a ton.