Datadog or backstage integration?

[DrewRay]

A lot of systems and live architecture data lives in other tools like datadog or backstage developer platform. I would love to be able to link to the services and components that exist in data dog directly from turbo EA, even if it's a manual mapping in the begining

[arturcaetano]

Your use cases are already supported. What remains to implement is your custom data synchronization mechanism, which should be relatively straightforward. IMO you have are two broad approaches:

• API-based integration: Develop a component that:
  • Uses the APIs of your existing platforms to retrieve the relevant data.
  • Maps the source data model to the corresponding Turbo EA JSON schemas.
  • Uses the Turbo EA API to create, update, or synchronize the data according to your requirements.
• File-based integration:
  • Export the data from the source platforms.
  • Transform it into the Turbo EA import format, for example using a script or a KNIME workflow.
  • Import the transformed data into Turbo EA.

Both solutions can be automated (e.g. run on a schedule, triggered by webhook), or executed on demand (e.g. via CLI).

Depending on your needs, the integration can synchronize complete records, perform upserts, or update only cross-references and URLs between platforms to provide traceability. The precise synchronization logic also depends on which platform is authoritative for each type of data. Your message does not provide enough detail to define that logic. But a at a technical level this appears to be a standard data extraction, transformation, and synchronization task.