Datadog MCP Server

Validate Datadog API credentials. Use this to verify that the API key and App key are correctly configured before performing other operations.

Access Datadog dashboards and visualizations. Actions: - list: Filter dashboards by name/tags - get: Retrieve full dashboard config including widgets (useful for learning patterns) - create: Create new dashboard - update: Modify existing dashboard - delete: Remove dashboard - validate: Test dashboa…

Manage Datadog scheduled downtimes for maintenance windows. Actions: list, get, create, update, cancel, listByMonitor. Use for: scheduling maintenance, preventing false alerts during deployments, managing recurring maintenance windows.

Track Datadog events. Actions: list, get, create, search, aggregate, top, timeseries, incidents, discover, histogram. For monitor alerts, use tags: ["source:alert"]. IMPORTANT — re-evaluation vs transition: - source:alert events INCLUDE renotifies and re-evaluations (every Datadog re-evaluation o…

Manage Datadog infrastructure hosts. Actions: list (with filters), totals (counts), mute (silence alerts), unmute. Use for: infrastructure inventory, host health, silencing noisy hosts during maintenance.

Manage Datadog incidents for incident response. Actions: list, get, search, create, update, delete. Use for: incident management, on-call response, postmortems, tracking MTTR/MTTD.

Search Datadog logs with grep-like text filtering. Actions: search (find logs), aggregate (count/group). Key filters: keyword (text grep), pattern (regex), service, host, status (error/warn/info). Time ranges: "1h", "3d@11:45:23". CORRELATION: Logs contain dd.trace_id in attributes for linking to tr…

Manage Datadog Logs archives (long-term log retention to S3 / GCS / Azure Blob). Actions: list, get, create, update, delete, reorder, get_order. Archives accept destinations of type 's3', 'gcs', or 'azure_storage'; per-provider credential and integration fields (S3 IAM role ARN, GCS service account,…

Manage Datadog Logs indexes (filters, retention, exclusion filters, daily limits). Actions: list, get, update, reorder, get_order. Datadog identifies indexes by 'name', not 'id'. Note: create/delete are UI-only per Datadog and not supported through the API. Mutations (update, reorder) are blocked wh…

Manage Datadog Logs pipelines (parsing & processor chains). Actions: list, get, create, update, delete, reorder, get_order. Pipelines run sequentially on incoming logs; reorder changes the structure of downstream data. Mutations are blocked when the server is in read-only mode. Unknown processor typ…

Query Datadog metrics. Actions: - query: Get timeseries data (requires from/to time range, PromQL query) - search: Find metrics by name (grep-like, NO time param needed) - list: Get recently active metrics (last 24h, optionally filter by tag) - metadata: Get metric details (unit, type, description) …

Manage Datadog Notebooks. Actions: list (search notebooks), get (by ID with cells), create (new notebook), update (modify notebook), delete (remove notebook). Use for: runbooks, incident documentation, investigation notes, dashboards as code.

Query Datadog Real User Monitoring (RUM) data. Actions: applications (list RUM apps), events (search RUM events), aggregate (group and count events), performance (Core Web Vitals: LCP, FCP, CLS, FID, INP), waterfall (session timeline with resources/actions/errors). Use for: frontend performance, use…

Get valid enum values for Datadog API fields. Returns palettes, widget types, aggregators, comparators, time spans, and other valid values for constructing dashboards, monitors, metrics queries, and SLOs. Use this to discover valid options before creating or updating Datadog resources.

Query Datadog Security Monitoring. Actions: rules (list detection rules), signals (search security signals), findings (list security findings). Use for: threat detection, compliance, security posture, incident investigation.

Manage Datadog Service Level Objectives. Actions: list (with SLI status & error budget), get, create, update, delete, history. SLO types: metric-based, monitor-based. Each list/get/create/update response includes a `url` field deep-linking to the Datadog UI. Use for: reliability tracking, error budg…

Manage Datadog Synthetic tests (API and Browser). Actions: list, get, create, update, delete, trigger, results. Use for: uptime monitoring, API testing, user journey testing, performance testing, canary deployments.

Manage Datadog host tags. Actions: list (all host tags), get (tags for specific host), add (create tags), update (replace tags), delete (remove all tags). Use for: infrastructure organization, filtering, grouping.

Manage Datadog teams. Actions: list (with filters), get (by ID), members (list team members). Use for: team organization, access management, collaboration.

Analyze APM traces for request flow and latency debugging. Actions: search (find spans), aggregate (group stats), services (list APM services). Key filters: minDuration/maxDuration ("500ms", "2s"), httpStatus ("5xx", ">=400"), status (ok/error), errorMessage (grep). APM METRICS: Traces auto-generate…

Query Datadog usage metering data. Actions: summary (overall usage), hosts (infrastructure), logs, custom_metrics, indexed_spans, ingested_spans. Use for: cost management, capacity planning, usage tracking, billing analysis.

Manage Datadog users. Actions: list (with filters), get (by ID). Use for: access management, user auditing, team organization.