Use Datadog on Google App Engine

Download the Datadog GAE module

cd $MY_GAE_APPLICATION
git clone https://github.com/DataDog/gae_datadog

app.yaml setup

You need to serve the Datadog requests to the Datadog module, include in your app.yaml:

handlers:
# Should probably be at the beginning of the list
# so it's not clobbered by a catchall route
- url: /datadog
  script: gae_datadog.datadog.app

Set your API key from the integration settings on Datadog

env_variables:
    DATADOG_API_KEY: 'YOURAPIKEY'

Use custom metrics with dogapi

This gist will show you an example of how to use custom metrics in your code.