mcpengine/servers/datadog/README.md

Datadog MCP Server

MCP server for Datadog monitoring, observability, and security platform.

Features

• Monitor Management: Create, list, mute, and manage alerts
• Metrics: Query timeseries data and list metrics
• Logs: Search and analyze log data
• Dashboards: List and retrieve dashboard configurations
• Synthetic Tests: Create and manage API/browser tests
• Downtimes: Schedule maintenance windows
• Hosts: List infrastructure and manage host tags
• SLOs: Track service level objectives
• Events: Create and query events
• Incidents: Manage incident responses

Environment Variables

Variable	Required	Description	Example
DD_API_KEY	✅	Datadog API key	abc123...
DD_APP_KEY	✅	Datadog application key	xyz789...

Getting Your API Keys

1. Log in to Datadog
2. Go to Organization Settings > API Keys
3. Create or copy API Key
4. Go to Application Keys tab
5. Create or copy Application Key
6. Set environment variables:

   export DD_API_KEY="your-api-key"
   export DD_APP_KEY="your-app-key"
   

Required API Scopes

Application keys can be scoped to specific permissions:

• Monitoring: Monitors, dashboards, metrics, logs
• Synthetics: API and browser tests
• Incident Management: Incidents and SLOs
• Infrastructure: Hosts and tags

Installation

npm install
npm run build

Usage

Stdio Mode

node dist/main.js

With Claude Desktop

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "datadog": {
      "command": "node",
      "args": ["/path/to/datadog/dist/main.js"],
      "env": {
        "DD_API_KEY": "your-api-key",
        "DD_APP_KEY": "your-app-key"
      }
    }
  }
}

Tools Overview (19+ tools)

Monitors (4)

• datadog_list_monitors - List monitors with filters
• datadog_get_monitor - Get monitor by ID
• datadog_create_monitor - Create new monitor
• datadog_mute_monitor - Mute monitor alerts

Metrics (2)

• datadog_list_metrics - List available metrics
• datadog_get_metric_timeseries - Query timeseries data

Logs (2)

• datadog_list_logs - List log entries
• datadog_search_logs - Advanced log search

Synthetics (2)

• datadog_list_synthetics - List synthetic tests
• datadog_create_synthetic - Create API/browser test

Downtimes (2)

• datadog_list_downtimes - List scheduled downtimes
• datadog_schedule_downtime - Schedule maintenance

Hosts (2)

• datadog_list_hosts - List monitored hosts
• datadog_get_host_tags - Get host tags

SLOs (1)

• datadog_list_service_level_objectives - List SLOs

Dashboards (2)

• datadog_list_dashboards - List dashboards
• datadog_get_dashboards - Get dashboard

Events (2)

• datadog_list_events - List events
• datadog_get_event - Get event

Incidents (2)

• datadog_list_incidents - List incidents
• datadog_get_incidents - Get incident

Coverage Manifest

Total Datadog API endpoints: ~300
Tools implemented: 21
Intentionally skipped: 279 (APM traces, security monitoring, RUM, integrations)
Coverage: 21/300 = 7%

Skipped Endpoints

• APM/Tracing (complex distributed tracing)
• Security Monitoring & SIEM
• Real User Monitoring (RUM)
• Network Performance Monitoring
• Cloud Cost Management
• Integration configurations
• User management & RBAC

License

MIT