How to get around GraphQL error when creating Datadog sourced metric?

[Andy Brooks]

I am following https://support.atlassian.com/statuspage/docs/add-a-datadog-metric/ and have been unable to have success with the "Add a Datadog metric to Statuspage" steps.  I have tried with many different JSON payloads from the metrics but I am consistently receiving a generic error stating "GraphQL error: Unknown error." 

I tried inspecting the network activity in my browser but have found no insight there.  I can also see both my API and Application keys are getting used in Datadog during these attempts.  I have set my Application key for read rights to metrics and synthetics with the expectation that this would satisfy the need from Statuspage.

I also have a Pingdom integration which I was able to create a metric with and publish without issue.

[Andy Brooks · Accepted solution]

Anyone looking here, I found my answer a bit further down the line in this community https://community.atlassian.com/t5/Statuspage-questions/Issue-to-add-a-datadog-metric/qaq-p/2258798#U2637685 Thanks to @Thys De Bruyn