The library exposes a function to write directly to DataDog from your own application. The example below shows how this can be done using pino-multi-stream.
Example:
const datadog = require('pino-datadog')
const pinoms = require('pino-multi-stream')
// create the datadog destination stream
const writeStream = await datadog.createWriteStream()
// create pino loggger
const logger = pinoms({ streams: [writeStream] })
// log some events
logger.info('Informational message')
logger.error(new Error('things got bad'), 'error message')The createWriteStream function creates a writestream that pino-multi-stream can use to send logs to.
Example:
const writeStream = await datadog.createWriteStream({
apiKey: 'blablabla',
size: 10
})Type: String (required)
The API key that can be found in your DataDog account (Integration > APIs).
Type: String (optional)
The number of log messages to send as a single batch (defaults to 1).