Datadog MCP Server
Datadog MCP servers enable AI models to interact with Datadog observability: metrics, logs, events, monitors, dashboards, and incidents.
Overview
The Datadog MCP Server bridges AI agents with Datadog by providing structured access to observability data and controls. It enables natural-language workflows over metrics, logs, events, dashboards, monitors, and incidents.
Community Server:
Maintained by GeLi2001 and distributed as the datadog-mcp-server npm package.
Key Features
Metrics & Logs
Query timeseries metrics and search logs with filtering and pagination
Monitors & Alerts
List and inspect monitor states for alerting and SLO overview
Dashboards & Incidents
Discover dashboards and fetch incidents for operational context
Events & Infrastructure
Fetch events and inspect monitor and infrastructure context
Available Tools
Quick Reference
| Tool | Purpose | Category |
|---|---|---|
get-metrics | List available metrics | Read |
get-metric-metadata | Get metadata for a metric | Read |
search-logs | Search logs with filters | Read |
aggregate-logs | Aggregate log data | Analytics |
get-monitors | Retrieve monitor states | Monitoring |
get-monitor | Get a monitor by ID | Monitoring |
get-dashboards | List dashboard definitions | Discovery |
get-dashboard | Get a dashboard by ID | Discovery |
get-events | Fetch events within a time range | Events |
get-incidents | List incidents | Incident |
Detailed Usage
get-metrics▶
List available metrics in your Datadog account.
use_mcp_tool({
server_name: "datadog",
tool_name: "get-metrics",
arguments: {}
});
search-logs▶
Search logs with query, time window, pagination, and sorting.
use_mcp_tool({
server_name: "datadog",
tool_name: "search-logs",
arguments: {
filter: {
query: "service:api-gateway status:error",
from: "now-30m",
to: "now"
},
limit: 50,
sort: "-timestamp"
}
});
get-monitors▶
Retrieve monitor states with optional filters.
use_mcp_tool({
server_name: "datadog",
tool_name: "get-monitors",
arguments: {
groupStates: ["alert", "warn"]
}
});
get-dashboards▶
List dashboard definitions for discovery.
use_mcp_tool({
server_name: "datadog",
tool_name: "get-dashboards",
arguments: {}
});
get-incidents▶
List incidents with optional filtering and pagination.
use_mcp_tool({
server_name: "datadog",
tool_name: "get-incidents",
arguments: {
includeArchived: false,
query: "state:active",
pageSize: 10
}
});
Installation
{
"mcpServers": {
"datadog": {
"command": "npx",
"args": [
"datadog-mcp-server",
"--apiKey", "your_api_key",
"--appKey", "your_app_key",
"--site", "datadoghq.com"
]
}
}
}
Regional Sites:
Use your Datadog site, e.g. datadoghq.eu, us3.datadoghq.com, us5.datadoghq.com, ap1.datadoghq.com.
Sources
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