create a datadog time board from a screen board

screen-time.sh

#!/usr/bin/env bash
#params
# dd_api_key=
# dd_app_key=
# screen_id=
curl -sX GET "https://app.datadoghq.com/api/v1/screen/${screen_id}?api_key=${dd_api_key}&application_key=${dd_app_key}" \
 | jq '{
         title: .board_title,
         description: .board_title,
         template_variables: .template_variables,
         graphs: [.widgets[] | {title: .title_text, definition: .tile_def}]
       }' \
 | curl -sX POST -H "Content-type: application/json" -d @- \
     "https://app.datadoghq.com/api/v1/dash?api_key=${dd_api_key}&application_key=${dd_app_key}"

this works great! thank you!

notes to others:

• the GET call gives you a complete representation of a given screenboard. that's something i was looking for in the UI but couldn't find.
• the POST will fail if any of the widgets in your screenboard aren't allowed to be on a timeboard (a possibly incomplete list of widget types: notes, alert graph, alert value, iframe, check status). i've gotten around this by making a clone of the screenboard, deleting the bad widgets, and then running the script on the clone

Here is how to do it to the opposite direction: https://gist.github.com/horttanainen/2abd23a0c9ced13c6c660e5329928dcd

This worked great, although the DD API gave me an error due to my query tables. Which is strange, because time boards support query tables...

{"errors": ["Error parsing query: viz type query_table is incorrect"]}                                                                                                                                                                                     

I simply deleted the query tables and it ended up working.

You can also copy and paste individual graphs/metrics -- might be a bummer if you have a lot but was a good fit for my use case