Datadog MCP for AI Agents

Securely connect your AI agents and chatbots (Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor, etc) with Datadog MCP or direct API to analyze logs, trigger alerts, fetch metrics, and investigate incidents through natural language.

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Datadog is a cloud monitoring and observability platform for applications and infrastructure. It helps teams detect issues and optimize performance by unifying metrics, logs, and traces.

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TOOLS

Supported Tools

Every Datadog action and event your agent gets out of the box.

Create Dashboard

Create a dashboard in Datadog.

Create downtime

Creates a new downtime in Datadog to suppress alerts during maintenance windows or planned outages.

Create event

Creates a new event in Datadog.

Create monitor

Creates a new Datadog monitor to track metrics, logs, or other data sources with configurable alerting thresholds and notifications.

Create SLO

Create a Service Level Objective (SLO) in Datadog.

Create Synthetic API Test

Create a synthetic API test in Datadog.

Create Webhook

Create a webhook in Datadog.

Delete Dashboard

Delete a dashboard in Datadog.

Delete monitor

Deletes a Datadog monitor permanently.

Get Dashboard

Get a specific dashboard from Datadog.

Get monitor

Retrieves detailed information about a specific Datadog monitor, including its current state, configuration, and any active downtimes.

Get Service Dependencies

Get service dependency mapping from Datadog APM.

Get Synthetics Locations

Tool to retrieve all available public and private locations for Synthetic tests in Datadog.

Get host tags

Retrieves all tags associated with a specific host in Datadog.

Get usage summary

Retrieves usage summary information from Datadog including API calls, hosts, containers, and other billable usage metrics.

List All Tags

List all tags from Datadog.

List API Keys

List API keys in Datadog.

List APM Services

List APM services from Datadog.

List AWS Integration

List AWS integrations in Datadog.

List dashboards

Lists all Datadog dashboards with basic information.

List events

Lists events from Datadog within a specified time range.

List hosts

Lists all hosts in your Datadog infrastructure with detailed information including metrics, tags, and status.

List Incidents

List incidents from Datadog.

List Log Indexes

Tool to retrieve a list of all log indexes configured in Datadog, including their names and configurations.

List active metrics

Discover metric names by listing actively reporting metrics since a given timestamp.

List monitors

Get all monitor details.

List Roles

List roles from Datadog organization.

List service checks

Lists service checks from Datadog.

List SLOs

List Service Level Objectives (SLOs) from Datadog.

List Synthetics Tests

List Synthetics tests from Datadog.

List Users

List users from Datadog organization.

List Webhooks

List webhooks from Datadog.

Mute Monitor

Mute a monitor in Datadog.

Query metrics

Queries Datadog metrics and returns time series data.

Search logs

Searches Datadog logs with advanced filtering capabilities.

Search Spans Analytics

Search and analyze span data with aggregations in Datadog.

Search Traces

Search for traces in Datadog APM.

Submit metrics

Submits custom metrics to Datadog.

Unmute Monitor

Unmute a monitor in Datadog.

Update Dashboard

Update a dashboard in Datadog.

Update host tags

Updates tags for a specific host in Datadog.

Update monitor

Updates an existing Datadog monitor with new configuration, thresholds, or notification settings.

SETUP GUIDE

Connect Datadog MCP Tool with your Agent

1

Install Composio

typescript
npm install @composio/core ai @ai-sdk/openai @ai-sdk/mcp
Install the Composio SDK and Claude Agent SDK
2

Create Tool Router Session

typescript
import { Composio } from '@composio/core';

const composio = new Composio({ apiKey: 'your-api-key' });

console.log("Creating Tool Router session...");
const { mcp } = await composio.create('your-user-id');
console.log(`Tool Router session created: ${mcp.url}`);
Initialize the Composio client and create a Tool Router session
3

Connect to AI Agent

typescript
import { openai } from '@ai-sdk/openai';
import { experimental_createMCPClient as createMCPClient } from '@ai-sdk/mcp';
import { generateText, stepCountIs } from 'ai';

const client = await createMCPClient({
  transport: {
    type: 'http',
    url: mcp.url,
    headers: { 'x-api-key': 'your-composio-api-key' }
  }
});

const tools = await client.tools();

const { text } = await generateText({
  model: openai('gpt-4o'),
  tools,
  messages: [{ role: 'user', content: 'Create a new monitor for CPU usage above 80%' }],
  stopWhen: stepCountIs( 5 )
});

console.log(`Agent: ${text}`);
Use the MCP server with your AI agent
SETUP GUIDE

Connect Datadog API Tool with your Agent

1

Install Composio

typescript
npm install @composio/openai
Install the Composio SDK
2

Initialize Composio and Create Tool Router Session

typescript
import OpenAI from 'openai';
import { Composio } from '@composio/core';
import { OpenAIResponsesProvider } from '@composio/openai';

const composio = new Composio({
  provider: new OpenAIResponsesProvider(),
});
const openai = new OpenAI({});
const session = await composio.create('your-user-id');
Import and initialize Composio client, then create a Tool Router session
3

Execute Datadog Tools via Tool Router with Your Agent

typescript
const tools = session.tools;
const response = await openai.responses.create({
  model: 'gpt-4.1',
  tools: tools,
  input: [{
    role: 'user',
    content: 'Create a monitor to alert on high CPU usage'
  }],
});
const result = await composio.provider.handleToolCalls(
  'your-user-id',
  response.output
);
console.log(result);
Get tools from Tool Router session and execute Datadog actions with your Agent

Why Use Composio?

AI Native Datadog Integration

  • Supports both Datadog MCP and direct API based integrations
  • Structured, LLM-friendly schemas for reliable tool execution
  • Rich coverage for reading, writing, and querying your Datadog data

Managed Auth

  • Built-in API key handling with secure storage
  • Central place to manage, scope, and revoke Datadog access
  • Per user and per environment credentials instead of hard-coded keys

Agent Optimized Design

  • Tools are tuned using real error and success rates to improve reliability over time
  • Comprehensive execution logs so you always know what ran, when, and on whose behalf

Enterprise Grade Security

  • Fine-grained RBAC so you control which agents and users can access Datadog
  • Scoped, least privilege access to Datadog resources
  • Full audit trail of agent actions to support review and compliance
FAQ

Frequently asked questions

Yes, Datadog requires you to configure your own OAuth credentials. Once set up, Composio handles token storage, refresh, and lifecycle management for you.

Yes! Composio's Tool Router enables agents to use multiple toolkits. Learn more.

Composio is SOC 2 and ISO 27001 compliant with all data encrypted in transit and at rest. Learn more.

Composio maintains and updates all toolkit integrations automatically, so your agents always work with the latest API versions.

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