Use Datadog from Claude
Add the Datadog connection to a Space that runs Claude, then use it from every channel in that Space.
ConnectorDatadog
Datadog integration for Claude and Codex
Connect Datadog once, then control which Spaces can use its approved tools and data without pasting credentials into prompts or threads.
CategoryDeveloper Tools & IT
PackB2B SaaS
Use Datadog from Codex
Add the Datadog connection to a Space that runs Codex, then use it from every channel in that Space.
Use Datadog from Sidekick
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Developer Tools & IT
What the Datadog connector can do
Datadog brings metrics, logs, and traces together for monitoring cloud applications and catching problems early. After you connect it to type.com, Claude can create monitors and SLOs, build dashboards, silence alerts during planned maintenance with downtimes, and post events that mark deploys or incidents. Engineering teams set up observability from the same thread where they discuss the system.
One connection, many Spaces
Connect Datadog once, then decide which Spaces can use it in threads, skills, automations, and coding work.
What teams do with Datadog in type.com
Add alerting for a new service
Describe what should page the team, and the agent creates the Datadog monitor with the query and thresholds you agreed on.
Create a Datadog monitor that alerts #oncall when p95 latency on checkout-api exceeds 800ms for 5 minutes.
Quiet alerts during maintenance
Schedule a downtime for the window of a database upgrade so the on-call engineer is not paged for expected noise.
Create a Datadog downtime for all monitors tagged service:orders-db from 1am to 3am UTC Saturday.
Define a reliability target
Create an SLO for a critical endpoint and post an event when a release ships, so the team can tie changes to reliability.
Create a 99.9% 30-day Datadog SLO for checkout-api availability and post a deploy event for release 4.12.
Representative actions
- Create Dashboard
Builds a dashboard of visualizations for the metrics and services you care about.
- Create downtime
Mutes alerts for chosen scopes during a planned maintenance window so on-call is not paged for expected noise.
- Create event
Posts an event, such as a deploy or outage note, to the Datadog event stream.
- Create monitor
Sets up a monitor on metrics, logs, or other data with alert conditions.
- Create SLO
Defines a service level objective to track reliability against a target.
Connection
API and auth details
Datadog provides APIs and official client libraries for observability automation across metrics, logs, traces, monitors, dashboards, incidents, SLOs, synthetics, RUM, events, service catalog, users, teams, integrations, infrastructure as code, and API/application-key authenticated operations.
- Source
- type.com catalog metadata
- Auth schemes
- OAuth, API key
- API docs
- https://docs.datadoghq.com/
- API reference
- https://docs.datadoghq.com/api/latest/
- Official site
- https://www.datadoghq.com/
FAQ
Questions people ask before connecting Datadog
Can Claude create Datadog monitors?
Yes. With Datadog connected to a type.com Space, Claude can create monitors, SLOs, dashboards, downtimes, and events. Engineers agree on thresholds in the thread, and the agent applies them.
How do I authenticate Datadog?
Datadog supports signing in with OAuth or adding API key credentials once to the connection. Admins then share it with the engineering Spaces that manage monitoring.
Can the agent post deploy events automatically?
You can ask the agent to create a Datadog event as part of a release thread or a reusable type.com skill, so each deploy gets marked in Datadog the same way.
Is this the same as an MCP server for Datadog?
Not exactly. type.com uses connectors and connections to give selected Spaces access to approved app tools and data. Some connectors use hosted MCP, while others use OAuth, API keys, service accounts, or custom APIs.
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