Datadog and healthchecks

[Matt Paulin]

Hi,

I'm working on integrating several dropwizard services to send healthcheck information to datadog so we can build a dashboard to display the health status in one place. My assumption is that there is some way in the .yml config file to specify healthchecks. But, in researching this it doesn't look true. Is there a "best practice" for posting heathcheck information like this? 

Thanks tons for any advice,

 -Matt

Below is the super basic way we have it configured. 

metrics:
      frequency: 1 minute                       # Default is 1 second.
      reporters:
        - type: datadog
          tags:
            - app:taskservice
            - env:dev
          transport:
            type: http
            apiKey: yourapikeygoeshere  #prod key