Datadog

Monitor infrastructure, application performance, and logs. Query metrics, search logs, list monitors and incidents.

Install

amodal connect datadog

Authentication

Dual API key authentication. Both headers required on every request.

• DD_API_KEY — Datadog API key (submits data)
• DD_APP_KEY — Datadog Application key (reads data)

Keys are scoped to the Datadog organization, not individual users.

Endpoints

Monitors

• GET /api/v1/monitor — List monitors
• GET /api/v1/monitor/{id} — Get monitor details
• POST /api/v1/monitor — Create monitor (confirmation)
• PUT /api/v1/monitor/{id} — Update monitor (confirmation)
• DELETE /api/v1/monitor/{id} — Delete monitor (confirmation)

Logs

• POST /api/v2/logs/events/search — Search logs

Events

• GET /api/v2/events — Search events

Metrics

• GET /api/v1/query — Query metrics

Infrastructure

• GET /api/v1/hosts — List hosts

Incidents

• GET /api/v2/incidents — List incidents
• GET /api/v2/incidents/{id} — Get incident details

Entities

• api, monitor, log, event, search, query, host, incident

Rules

• Rate limit: 300 requests/minute per API key
• Metrics query (GET /api/v1/query) supports a max 24-hour window per request — split wider ranges into 24h chunks
• Metrics query from and to are Unix timestamps in seconds, not milliseconds
• Log search uses Datadog query syntax (not Lucene) — e.g., service:web status:error