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# Send Datadog Events to Kafka

> This tutorial shows how to send Datadog Events to Upstash Kafka using webhook API

In this post, we will show how to connect Datadog to Upstash Kafka so Datadog
events will be sent to Kafka. We will use the [Webhook API](../rest/webhook)
provided by Upstash.

### Kafka Setup

Create an Upstash Kafka cluster and a topic as explained
[here](https://docs.upstash.com/kafka). In the cluster page, under the Webhook
API section, copy the webhook URL. It should be something like this:

```shell
https://definite-goldfish-14080-us1-rest-kafka.upstash.io/webhook?topic=datadog&user=ZGVmaW5pdGzQy2VXOja9Lkj35hhj&pass=v02ibEOSBgo42TwSZ0BPcIl2ziBk3eg7ITxCmkHwjm
```

You can change the topic parameter depending on which topic you want to send the
Datadog events.

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### Webhook Setup

Login to your Datadog dashboard and click on
[Webhook Integration](https://app.datadoghq.com/account/settings?#integrations/webhooks).

Enter a name for your webhook and paste the webhook URL that you copied from the
Upstash Console. You can also change the payload template and add some custom
headers as described [here](https://docs.datadoghq.com/integrations/webhooks/).

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### Monitor Setup

Now you need to select which events to sent to Kafka. You can either
[create a new monitor](https://app.datadoghq.com/monitors/create) or
[update existing monitors](https://app.datadoghq.com/monitors/manage). At the
`Notify your team` section you need to add your webhook, so the monitor will
start sending new events to Kafka via webhook API.

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Now you can manually trigger an event and check your Kafka topic to see the
events are coming. Copy/paste the curl consume expression from \[Upstash Console]
to check the new events.

```shell
curl https://definite-goldfish-14224-us1-rest-kafka.upstash.io/consume/GROUP_NAME/GROUP_INSTANCE_NAME/datadogtopic -u \
 ZGVmaW5pdGUtZ29swSZ0BPcfdgfdfg45543tIl2ziBk3eg7ITxCmkHwjmRdN
```