Real-time GCP BigQuery Analytics Visualization with Datadog

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To build a real-time Google Cloud Platform (GCP) BigQuery analytics visualization with Datadog, you'll need to configure the integration between GCP BigQuery and Datadog, so that Datadog can receive and display analytics data in real-time.

In this guide, I'll show you how to set up a [`MetricMetadata`](https://www.pulumi.com/registry/packages/datadog/api-docs/metricmetadata/) resource in Pulumi using the Datadog Provider. This resource is part of the configuration you would need to tell Datadog what kind of metrics it should be collecting and displaying from BigQuery.

Please note that the code below doesn't set up the entire integration or visualization; it only creates a metric metadata resource in Datadog. Setting up the complete pipeline for real-time analytics and visualization typically involves:

1. Configuring the GCP BigQuery dataset and ensuring it streams data as needed.
2. Setting up a service to export the BigQuery data to Datadog. This could be a custom data pipeline or using a service like Google Cloud Dataflow.
3. Configuring Datadog to visualize the data. This includes setting up dashboards and, as shown below, defining metric metadata.

Here is the code in Python using Pulumi:

```python
import pulumi
import pulumi_datadog as datadog

# Define the metric metadata for a given BigQuery metric
# that will be sent to Datadog for visualization.
# Replace 'your-metric-name' with the actual metric name from BigQuery.
metric_metadata = datadog.MetricMetadata("your-metric-metadata",
    metric="your-metric-name",
    type="gauge",
    description="This metric tracks the number of events from BigQuery.",
    short_name="BQ Events",
    unit="event",
    per_unit="minute",
)

# Export the URL of the MetricMetadata
pulumi.export("metric_metadata_url", metric_metadata.url)
```

In this program:

- We import the needed modules (`pulumi` and `pulumi_datadog`).
- We create a `MetricMetadata` object with `datadog.MetricMetadata`, which defines how the metric will be handled in Datadog.
- We set attributes like `type`, `description`, `short_name`, `unit`, and `per_unit` to give Datadog more information about what it is collecting.
- We use `pulumi.export` to output the URL of the metric metadata, which you can use to check the metadata configuration in Datadog.

To complete the setup, you'll need to ensure that your GCP and Datadog accounts are properly linked, and data is being exported from GCP to Datadog. Consult the Datadog documentation on GCP integration and their API documentation for details on how to set up data forwarding from GCP to Datadog.

Please replace `'your-metric-name'` with the name of the metric you want to visualize from your BigQuery dataset, and adjust the other properties accordingly based on what exactly you want to measure and how Datadog should interpret those measurements.