a quick utility for writing events to the Datadog events stream

dd_event.py

#!/usr/bin/env python
""" dd_event:
      a quick utility for writing events to the Datadog events stream.

    requires:
      pip install dogapi
      pip install argparse
"""
import argparse

from dogapi.http import DogHttpApi as DD

API_KEY = 'YOUR JENKINS API KEY HERE'
APP_KEY = 'YOU JENKINS APP KEY HERE'

parser = argparse.ArgumentParser()
tag_help = ("tags to associate with this event.  "
            "argument should be quoted and "
            "space-separated for multiple tags")
title_help = ("title to associate with this event.  "
              "argument should be quoted if it is"
              " more than one word ")
text_help = ("text to associate with this event.  "
             "argument should be quoted if it is"
             " more than one word ")


parser.add_argument("--tags", default='', help=tag_help)
parser.add_argument("--title", default='', help=title_help)
parser.add_argument("--text", default='', help=text_help)

conn_args = dict(
    api_key=API_KEY,
    application_key=APP_KEY,
    api_version='v1',
    json_responses=True)

if __name__ == '__main__':
    conn = DD(**conn_args)
    args = parser.parse_args()
    title = args.title
    text = args.text
    tags = list(set(args.tags.split()))
    if not title:
        raise SystemExit("datadog event must have title")
    if not text:
        raise SystemExit("datadog event must have text")
    print conn.event(
        title=title,
        tags=tags,
        text=text)