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Datadog MCP Server

Connects AI assistants to Datadog through MCP, enabling querying of metrics, listing monitors, and searching logs to surface observability data directly in your AI workflow.

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What This Server Exposes

Tools

query_metricslist_monitorssearch_logs

Resources

  • •metric timeseries
  • •monitor status
  • •log events

Setup Instructions

  1. 1Create a Datadog API key at app.datadoghq.com/organization-settings/api-keys
  2. 2Create a Datadog application key at app.datadoghq.com/organization-settings/application-keys
  3. 3Add the Datadog server config to your Claude Desktop configuration
  4. 4Set the DD_API_KEY and DD_APP_KEY environment variables
  5. 5Restart Claude Desktop

Configuration

Claude Desktop Configuration

claude_desktop_config.json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "datadog": {
      "command": "npx",
      "args": [
        "-y",
        "@modelcontextprotocol/server-datadog"
      ],
      "env": {
        "DD_API_KEY": "your-datadog-api-key",
        "DD_APP_KEY": "your-datadog-application-key"
      }
    }
  }
}

Environment Variables

DD_API_KEY
Datadog API key from app.datadoghq.com/organization-settings/api-keys
Required🔒 Secret
DD_APP_KEY
Datadog application key from app.datadoghq.com/organization-settings/application-keys
Required🔒 Secret

Server Manifest

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Compatibility

Claude DesktopClaude Code
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Safety Notes

Datadog API and application keys grant broad read access to your infrastructure metrics and logs. Restrict key scopes using Datadog's fine-grained permissions and rotate keys regularly.

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