Unable to associate synthetic test with an SLO

[matt-canty-dragon]

Terraform Version

v0.12.18

Affected Resource(s)

Please list the resources as a list, for example:

• datadog_service_level_objective
• datadog_synthetics_test

Terraform Configuration Files

resource "datadog_synthetics_test" "example" {
  type    = "api"
  subtype = "http"
  request = {
    method = "GET"
    url    = "https://github.com/status"
  }
  request_headers = {
    Content-Type = "application/json"
  }
  assertions = [
    {
      type     = "statusCode"
      operator = "is"
      target   = "200"
    },
    {
      type     = "body"
      operator = "contains"
      target   = "GitHub lives!"
    }
  ]
  locations = ["aws:ap-southeast-1"]
  options = {
    tick_every = 300
  }
  tags    = []
  name    = "Test"
  message = "Test"
  status  = "live"
}

resource "datadog_service_level_objective" "example" {
  name        = "Test SLO"
  type        = "monitor"
  description = "Testing SLO with Terraform."
  monitor_ids = [datadog_synthetics_test.example.id]

  thresholds {
    timeframe = "7d"
    target    = "99"
    warning   = "99.5"
  }
}

Debug Output

➜ terraform apply --auto-approve  
datadog_synthetics_test.example: Creating...
datadog_synthetics_test.example: Creation complete after 1s [id=nvr-sz3-gyy]

Error: Incorrect attribute value type

  on test.tf line 37, in resource "datadog_service_level_objective" "example":
  37:   monitor_ids = [datadog_synthetics_test.example.id]

Inappropriate value for attribute "monitor_ids": a number is required.

Expected Behavior

It should create an SLO with a synthetic test as one of the attributed monitors.

Actual Behavior

It fails because the SLO expects a list of numbers, but the synthetic test outputs it's ID as a string in the new format.

Steps to Reproduce

terraform apply --auto-approve

References

• Allow both int and string in more places zorkian/go-datadog-api#219

[nmuesch]

Hey @matt-canty-dragon Thanks for the issue report. The synthetics resource includes a monitor_id element that should be able to be used in the SLO resource - https://www.terraform.io/docs/providers/datadog/r/synthetics.html#monitor_id

Could you try referencing the monitor_id field and see if that addresses your use case?

[matt-canty-dragon]

Thanks. I did not realise this. + it is in the docs!

It is working as expected.

[nmuesch]

No problem, glad to hear things are working!