dog commandline tool does not auto-detect hostname

[miketheman]

datadogpy/datadog/dogshell/common.py

Lines 97 to 98 in ac0857c

	if config.has_option('Connection', 'host_name'):
	self['host_name'] = config.get('Connection', 'host_name')

datadogpy/datadog/dogshell/metric.py

Lines 31 to 34 in e387239

	if args.localhostname:
	host = find_localhost()
	else:
	host = args.host

This then requires each use of the dog command to specify the hostname, or the --localhostname argument, but there is no auto-detection in place for default.

My Principle of Least Surprise tells me that something should be detected by default, and the user should be allowed to override it with command line flags, config file values, environment variables, etc.

[yannmh]

Thanks for the detailed report @miketheman. Assigning the ticket to our 0.11.0 milestone.

[drstevens]

It would be nice if event post command got this behavior as well

[yannmh]

Thanks for your feedback: I addressed the issue in #122 which I expect to be out next week with the 0.11.0 release.