Monitor IoT devices with Home Assistant and Datadog

Nuno Sousa, Senior Developer at Uphold and creator of Datadog's integration with Home Assistant, discusses how Datadog can enhance the capabilities of Home Assistant. Home Assistant is an open-source platform for tracking and automating home devices, while Datadog allows users to aggregate, analyze, and monitor data from Home Assistant. By sending Home Assistant metrics to Datadog, users can detect anomalies in temperatures, correlate events with device malfunctions, set alerts for Z-Wave message relay failures, and identify trends in power usage. The integration involves setting up the Datadog component, which listens for state changes in devices/entities and pushes their latest attribute values to the Datadog Agent. Users can then create custom dashboards to visualize data from multiple Home Assistant components, such as temperature, humidity, battery levels, power metrics, and more. To configure the integration, users need to install the Datadog Agent on a host and add specific configuration details to their Home Assistant configuration.yaml file.