For CloudHiro to be able to connect to DataDog and fetch metrics, costs and recommendations, we will need the following configuration:

1. Creating Api Key + APP Key

   1. API Key:

      1. Log into your Datadog account.

      2. select organization settings when you hover over your datadog user

      3. API Keys

      4. Enter API Key (for example “Cloudhiro-costi-api-key”) and click Create Key

      5. Copy the new API Key and save it for later. 

   2. ​Application Key:

      1. Organization Settings - > application Keys - > Enter 

      2. Application Keys

      3. Enter Application Key (for example “Cloudhiro-costi-app-key”) and click Create Key

      4. Copy the new Application Key and save it for later. ​
          

2. Scope. It’s the permissions for the API Key.

   1. API keys are created by default without any scope.

   2. To scope the API key, click Edit under the scope section

   3. Please choose the following scopes and click save:

      1. “Not Scoped” - Highest read-only access. Grant access to cost, default tags, custom tags

      2. “Usage_read” - grant CloudHiro read-only access to cost with breakdowns, sub-products, regions, organizations,etc.

      3. hosts_read - Grant CloudHiro read-only access to hosts and tags on hosts.  

      4. “Metrics_read”, “timeseries_query” - grant read-only access also to datadog default tags, like “service”, “status”.

      5. “monitor_read”, “dashboard_read” - grant CloudHiro read-only access  to show you cost optimization recommendations. 

      6. Connect to CloudHiro

   4. 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 he can enable it for you.

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That’s it!

We are done setting up. You can now ask your partner for a tour of CloudHiro and the CloudHiro visualizer.

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