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, traces, dashboards, monitors, incidents, and infrastructure contexts.

Implementations:

Official preview by Datadog and community servers in Python, Node.js, and Docker.

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

🕵️

APM & Traces

Access trace data for latency, dependencies, and service analysis

Available Tools

Quick Reference

Tool	Purpose	Category
`get_metrics`	Query timeseries metrics	Read
`search_logs`	Search logs with filters	Read
`get_monitors`	Retrieve monitor states	Monitoring
`list_dashboards`	List dashboard definitions	Discovery
`get_incidents`	List incidents	Incident

Detailed Usage

get_metrics▶

Query Datadog metrics with flexible time ranges.

use_mcp_tool({
  server_name: "datadog",
  tool_name: "get_metrics",
  arguments: {
    query: "avg:system.cpu.user{*}",
    minutes_back: 30
  }
});

search_logs▶

Search logs with query, time window, pagination, and sorting.

use_mcp_tool({
  server_name: "datadog",
  tool_name: "search_logs",
  arguments: {
    query: "service:api-gateway AND status:error",
    minutes_back: 30,
    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"]
  }
});

list_dashboards▶

List dashboard definitions for discovery.

use_mcp_tool({
  server_name: "datadog",
  tool_name: "list_dashboards",
  arguments: {}
});

get_incidents▶

List incidents with optional filtering and pagination.

use_mcp_tool({
  server_name: "datadog",
  tool_name: "get_incidents",
  arguments: {
    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.

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