Datadog MCP Server

The Datadog MCP server your AI deserves. 117 read-only tools. Every observability pillar. Zero writes. Zero regrets.

Why This One?

Look, we get it. You searched "datadog mcp server" and got seven results. You're wondering which one to pick. Let us save you approximately forty-five seconds of reading other READMEs that say "supports monitors and dashboards" like that's supposed to impress someone.

Feature	Us (117 tools)	Project 1	Project 2	Project 3

Observability Core
Logs (search + aggregate + pipelines + indexes)	7 tools	1 tool	0-1 tool	0-1 tool
APM (traces, spans, services, dependencies)	7 tools	1 tool	0 tools	0 tools
Metrics (query, metadata, volumes, tags)	6 tools	1 tool	0-1 tool	0 tools
RUM (events, apps, aggregation)	3 tools	3 tools	0 tools	0 tools

Alerting & Reliability
Monitors (list, get, search)	4 tools	1 tool	0-1 tool	0-1 tool
Dashboards (get, list, collections)	3 tools	1 tool	0-1 tool	0-1 tool
SLOs (list, get, history, search, corrections)	5 tools	0 tools	0-1 tool	0-1 tool
Synthetics (tests, results, locations)	5 tools	0 tools	0-1 tool	0 tools
Events & Incidents	7 tools	2 tools	0-1 tool	0 tools
Downtimes	2 tools	1 tool	0-1 tool	0 tools

Infrastructure & Security
Infrastructure (hosts, tags, containers, processes)	8 tools	2 tools	0-1 tool	0-1 tool
Security (findings, posture, signals, rules, scanning)	10 tools	0 tools	0-1 tool	0 tools
Network Monitoring	2 tools	0 tools	0 tools	0 tools
Cloud Integrations (AWS/GCP/Azure/Cloudflare/Confluent)	5 tools	0 tools	0 tools	0 tools

Platform & DevOps
Service Catalog	3 tools	0 tools	0-1 tool	0 tools
CI Visibility (pipelines + tests)	4 tools	0 tools	0-1 tool	0 tools
Organization (teams, users, auth)	5 tools	0 tools	0-1 tool	0 tools
Error Tracking	3 tools	0 tools	0 tools	0 tools
Database Monitoring	2 tools	0 tools	0 tools	0 tools
Workflows & Automation	2 tools	0 tools	0 tools	0 tools
DORA Metrics	1 tool	0 tools	0 tools	0 tools

Governance & Cost
Audit Trail	2 tools	0 tools	0 tools	0 tools
Usage & Billing	4 tools	0 tools	0 tools	0 tools
Cloud Cost Management	1 tool	0 tools	0 tools	0 tools
Access Control (keys, mappings, policies)	4 tools	0 tools	0 tools	0 tools
Notebooks	3 tools	0 tools	0 tools	0 tools
Fleet Management	1 tool	0 tools	0 tools	0 tools
Webhooks	1 tool	0 tools	0 tools	0 tools
Monitor Notifications	1 tool	0 tools	0 tools	0 tools
IP Ranges & Config	1 tool	0 tools	0 tools	0 tools

Total	117	~20	~13	~29
Accidentally deletes your monitors	No	No	No	No
Can mute your hosts at 3 AM	No	No	No	Yes
Test coverage	90%+	Unknown	Unknown	Unknown

We're not saying the other MCP servers are bad. That would be rude, and also legally questionable. They're all built by talented engineers who are contributing to open source and making the ecosystem better. Some of them have features we don't, like the ability to write to your Datadog account from an AI chat window. We chose not to include those. On purpose. You're welcome.

The Philosophy

Read everything. Write nothing.

Your AI assistant should be able to see all of Datadog. It should not be able to silence your pager at 3 AM because it decided your alerts were "probably fine." That's not a hypothetical scenario. That's a Tuesday. We have opinions about this, and they are all correct.

Quick Start

npx github:dreamiurg/datadog-mcp --help

That's it. No installation required. Node.js 20+. Works in 8 seconds. We timed it.

Setup

1. Get Datadog Credentials

You need two keys from your Datadog Organization Settings:

Credential	Where to Find	Difficulty
API Key	Organization Settings -> API Keys -> New Key	Easy
Application Key	Organization Settings -> Application Keys -> New Key	Also easy

Tip: For least-privilege access, scope your Application Key to only the permissions you need. Or give it everything. We won't judge. (We will judge a little.)

2. Configure Your AI Tool

Claude Code (CLI)

claude mcp add datadog -- npx github:dreamiurg/datadog-mcp \
  --apiKey YOUR_API_KEY \
  --appKey YOUR_APP_KEY \
  --site datadoghq.com

Or add to ~/.claude.json:

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "datadog": {
      "command": "npx",
      "args": ["github:dreamiurg/datadog-mcp", "--apiKey", "YOUR_API_KEY", "--appKey", "YOUR_APP_KEY"]
    }
  }
}

Claude Desktop

Add to your config file:

macOS: ~/Library/Application Support/Claude/claude_desktop_config.json
Windows: %APPDATA%/Claude/claude_desktop_config.json

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "datadog": {
      "command": "npx",
      "args": ["github:dreamiurg/datadog-mcp", "--apiKey", "YOUR_API_KEY", "--appKey", "YOUR_APP_KEY"]
    }
  }
}

Cursor / VS Code / Windsurf

Tool	Config File
Cursor	`~/.cursor/mcp.json` or `.cursor/mcp.json` (project)
Windsurf	`~/.codeium/windsurf/mcp_config.json`
VS Code	User Settings JSON (`Ctrl+Shift+P` -> "Open User Settings (JSON)")

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "datadog": {
      "command": "npx",
      "args": ["github:dreamiurg/datadog-mcp", "--apiKey", "YOUR_API_KEY", "--appKey", "YOUR_APP_KEY"]
    }
  }
}

Gemini CLI

Add to ~/.gemini/settings.json:

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "datadog": {
      "command": "npx",
      "args": ["github:dreamiurg/datadog-mcp", "--apiKey", "YOUR_API_KEY", "--appKey", "YOUR_APP_KEY"]
    }
  }
}

Codex CLI (OpenAI)

Add to ~/.codex/config.toml:

[mcp_servers.datadog]
command = "npx"
args = ["github:dreamiurg/datadog-mcp", "--apiKey", "YOUR_API_KEY", "--appKey", "YOUR_APP_KEY"]

The Full Arsenal (117 Tools)

Logs & Log Management (7 tools)

Tool	What It Does	Try Asking
`search-logs`	Search logs with Datadog query syntax	"Find errors in auth service last hour"
`aggregate-logs`	Compute counts, averages, group-bys on log data	"Count errors by service in the last 24h"
`get-log-pipelines`	List log pipeline configurations	"How are our logs being processed?"
`get-log-indexes`	List log indexes and retention settings	"What retention is configured for our logs?"
`get-logs-pipeline-order`	Get log pipeline processing order	"What order do log pipelines execute in?"
`get-logs-archive-order`	Get log archive priority order	"Which archives are checked first for rehydration?"
`list-logs-metrics`	List log-based custom metrics	"What metrics are generated from logs?"

APM & Traces (7 tools)

Tool	What It Does	Try Asking
`search-spans`	Search APM spans with query syntax	"Find slow requests in payment service"
`aggregate-spans`	Compute APM statistics (p99, error rates)	"Show p99 latency by service"
`get-services`	List APM-instrumented services	"What services are being traced?"
`get-trace`	Get a full distributed trace by ID	"Show all spans for trace abc123"
`search-apm-events`	Search raw APM events	"Find APM events with errors in checkout"
`list-active-apm-events`	List currently active APM events	"What APM events are happening right now?"
`list-spans-metrics`	List span-based APM metrics	"What custom span metrics are configured?"

Metrics (6 tools)

Tool	What It Does	Try Asking
`query-metrics`	Query timeseries metric data	"Show CPU usage for web hosts last 4 hours"
`get-metrics`	List available metrics	"What metrics are available?"
`get-metric-metadata`	Get metric metadata and descriptions	"Describe the system.cpu.user metric"
`search-metric-volumes`	Search metrics by name with volume data	"Which metrics matching 'aws.' have the highest volume?"*
`get-metric-tag-config`	Get tag configuration for a specific metric	"What tags are indexed for system.cpu.user?"
`list-metric-tag-configs`	List metric tag configurations	"Which metrics have custom tag configurations?"

Monitors & Alerting (4 tools)

Tool	What It Does	Try Asking
`get-monitors`	List monitors (filter by state, tags)	"Show all alerting monitors"
`get-monitor`	Get monitor details by ID	"Get details for monitor 12345"
`search-monitors`	Search monitors by query	"Find monitors related to database"
`get-monitor-config-policies`	Get monitor configuration policies	"What monitor config policies are enforced?"

Dashboards (3 tools)

Tool	What It Does	Try Asking
`get-dashboards`	List all dashboards	"What dashboards do we have?"
`get-dashboard`	Get dashboard details and widgets	"Show the API metrics dashboard"
`list-dashboard-lists`	List dashboard collections	"What dashboard lists are organized?"

SLOs (5 tools)

Tool	What It Does	Try Asking
`get-slos`	List Service Level Objectives	"Which SLOs are breaching?"
`get-slo`	Get SLO details by ID	"Show error budget for SLO xyz"
`get-slo-history`	Get historical SLO performance	"How has our API SLO trended this month?"
`get-slo-corrections`	List SLO correction periods	"What SLO corrections have been applied?"
`search-slos`	Search SLOs with query filters	"Find all SLOs with error budget below 10%"

Synthetics (5 tools)

Tool	What It Does	Try Asking
`get-synthetic-tests`	List synthetic tests	"What synthetic checks do we have?"
`get-synthetic-results`	Get results for a specific test	"Show recent results for the checkout test"
`list-synthetics-global-variables`	List Synthetics global variables	"What global variables are available for tests?"
`list-synthetics-locations`	List available Synthetics testing locations	"Where can I run Synthetics tests from?"
`list-synthetics-private-locations`	List Synthetics private locations	"What private locations are configured for testing?"

Real User Monitoring (RUM) (3 tools)

Tool	What It Does	Try Asking
`search-rum-events`	Search RUM events with filters	"Find RUM errors on the checkout page"
`list-rum-applications`	List registered RUM applications	"What apps have RUM enabled?"
`aggregate-rum-events`	Analytics on RUM data (counts, averages, group-by)	"Average page load time by country"

Infrastructure (8 tools)

Tool	What It Does	Try Asking
`get-hosts`	List infrastructure hosts	"Show all production hosts"
`get-host-tags`	Get tags for all hosts	"What tags are on our hosts?"
`get-active-hosts-count`	Get total active/up host count	"How many hosts are running?"
`list-host-totals`	Get total active and up host counts	"Show me the total host count breakdown"
`list-network-devices`	List NDM network devices	"Show network device status"
`list-fleet-agents`	List Datadog agents across fleet	"Which agents are outdated?"
`get-containers`	List running containers	"Show containers filtered by image"
`list-processes`	List running processes	"Find java processes across hosts"

Service Catalog (3 tools)

Tool	What It Does	Try Asking
`list-service-definitions`	List all service definitions	"What services are in the catalog?"
`get-service-definition`	Get a single service definition	"Who owns the auth service?"
`get-service-dependencies`	Get service dependency map	"What does the payment service depend on?"

CI Visibility (4 tools)

Tool	What It Does	Try Asking
`list-ci-pipelines`	List CI pipeline events	"Show recent CI pipeline runs"
`get-ci-pipeline-events`	Aggregate CI pipeline analytics	"Average pipeline duration by repo"
`list-ci-tests`	List CI test events	"Show failed tests in the last hour"
`search-ci-test-events`	Search CI test events with filters	"Find flaky tests in the checkout service"

Security (10 tools)

Tool	What It Does	Try Asking
`search-security-findings`	Search Cloud Security findings	"Find high-severity security findings"
`get-security-finding`	Get a specific security finding	"Get finding abc123"
`list-posture-findings`	List compliance/posture findings	"Show failed compliance checks"
`search-security-signals`	Search security monitoring signals	"Recent threat detections"
`get-csm-coverage`	Get CSM coverage across cloud accounts	"Which AWS accounts lack security coverage?"
`list-vulnerabilities`	List vulnerability findings (SAST, SCA, IAST, Infra)	"Show open SAST vulnerabilities in production"
`list-csm-threats-agent-rules`	List CSM Threats agent rules	"What workload security rules are enabled?"
`list-security-rules`	List security monitoring rules	"What detection rules are active?"
`list-security-monitoring-rules`	List security monitoring detection rules	"What security detection rules are configured?"
`get-sensitive-data-scanner-config`	Get Sensitive Data Scanner configuration	"What sensitive data scanning rules are active?"

Organization (5 tools)

Tool	What It Does	Try Asking
`get-organization`	Get Datadog organization info	"Show organization details and settings"
`list-teams`	List Datadog teams	"What teams exist in our org?"
`list-team-members`	List members of a Datadog team	"Who is on the platform team?"
`list-users`	List Datadog users	"Who has access to Datadog?"
`list-authn-mappings`	List SAML/OIDC authentication mappings	"How do IdP groups map to Datadog roles?"

Events, Downtimes & Database Monitoring (6 tools)

Tool	What It Does	Try Asking
`get-events`	Fetch events in a time range	"What events happened today?"
`get-downtimes`	List scheduled maintenance	"Any active downtimes?"
`list-downtime-schedules`	List scheduled downtimes (v2)	"What downtimes are scheduled?"
`get-dbm-samples`	Get Database Monitoring query samples	"Show slow postgres queries"
`get-dbm-query-metrics`	Get Database Monitoring query metrics	"Which queries have the highest latency?"
`get-ip-ranges`	Get Datadog IP ranges for firewall config	"What IPs should I allowlist for Datadog?"

Audit & Usage (4 tools)

Tool	What It Does	Try Asking
`search-audit-logs`	Search audit trail with filters	"Who changed configs in the last hour?"
`get-hourly-usage`	Get hourly usage metering by product	"Show log ingestion usage trends"
`get-top-avg-metrics`	Get top custom metrics by hourly average	"Which custom metrics drive cardinality costs?"
`get-estimated-cost`	Get estimated usage cost data	"What's our projected Datadog bill this month?"

Notebooks (2 tools)

Tool	What It Does	Try Asking
`list-notebooks`	List Datadog notebooks with filtering	"Find investigation notebooks"
`get-notebook`	Get a specific notebook by ID	"Show notebook 12345"

Containers & Processes (2 tools)

Tool	What It Does	Try Asking
`list-containers`	List containers with tag filtering	"Show running containers in us-east-1"
`list-processes`	List processes across hosts	"Find Java processes with high memory"

Network Monitoring (2 tools)

Tool	What It Does	Try Asking
`list-network-devices`	List NDM network devices	"Show network device status"
`aggregate-network-connections`	Aggregate network flow analytics	"Top network flows by bandwidth"

Security & Compliance (6 tools)

Tool	What It Does	Try Asking
`list-security-rules`	List security monitoring rules	"What detection rules are active?"
`search-error-tracking-issues`	Search error tracking issues	"Top errors by volume in production"
`get-error-tracking-issue`	Get error tracking issue details by ID	"Show details for issue abc123"
`get-csm-coverage`	Get CSM coverage across cloud accounts	"Which AWS accounts lack security coverage?"
`list-vulnerabilities`	List vulnerability findings (SAST, SCA, IAST, Infra)	"Show open SAST vulnerabilities in production"
`list-csm-threats-agent-rules`	List CSM Threats agent rules	"What workload security rules are enabled?"

Incidents (4 tools)

Tool	What It Does	Try Asking
`search-incidents`	Search incidents with advanced filters	"Find P1 incidents related to database"
`get-incident-todos`	Get action items for an incident	"What's pending for this P0?"
`get-incident-timeline`	Get timeline events for an incident	"Show the timeline for incident xyz"
`get-incident-services`	List incident services	"What services are configured for incident management?"

Cloud & Integrations (7 tools)

Tool	What It Does	Try Asking
`list-aws-accounts`	List integrated AWS accounts	"Which AWS accounts are connected?"
`list-gcp-integration`	List GCP integration accounts	"Which GCP projects are integrated?"
`list-azure-integration`	List Azure integration accounts	"Which Azure subscriptions are connected?"
`list-cloudflare-accounts`	List Cloudflare accounts	"What Cloudflare accounts are integrated?"
`list-confluent-accounts`	List Confluent Cloud accounts	"Which Confluent Cloud accounts are connected?"
`list-webhooks`	List webhook integrations	"What webhooks are configured?"
`list-api-keys`	List Datadog API keys	"What API keys are active?"

DevOps & Automation (6 tools)

Tool	What It Does	Try Asking
`list-dora-deployments`	List DORA deployment events	"Show deployment frequency for web service"
`list-workflows`	List workflow automations	"What incident response workflows exist?"
`list-workflow-executions`	List execution instances for a workflow	"Show run history for the incident workflow"
`list-fleet-agents`	List Datadog agents across fleet	"Which agents are outdated?"
`list-monitor-notification-rules`	List monitor notification routing	"Who gets alerted for this monitor?"
`list-cost-budgets`	List cloud cost budgets	"Are any teams over budget?"

Access Control (3 tools)

Tool	What It Does	Try Asking
`list-restriction-policies`	Get restriction policy for a resource	"What access restrictions are configured?"
`list-app-keys`	List application keys for the current user	"What application keys do I have?"
`list-authn-mappings`	List authentication mappings	"How do SAML groups map to Datadog roles?"

The Competitive Landscape (We Did the Research So You Don't Have To)

There are approximately seven thousand Datadog MCP servers on GitHub. We counted. Then we lost count. Then we counted again. Here's how they stack up:

Capability	Us	Project 1	Project 2	Project 3	Project 4
Total tools	117	~20	~10	~13	~29
Read-only by design	Yes	No	Yes	Yes	No
Can mute your hosts	No	Yes	No	No	No
Can delete your dashboards	No	No	No	No	Yes
Can schedule downtimes	No	Yes	No	No	Yes
Test suite	570 tests	-	-	-	-
Last meaningful update	Today	Recent	Dec 2025	Jan 2026	Dec 2025

A note on write operations: Some servers let your AI create monitors, delete dashboards, and schedule downtimes. That's a feature. It's also the plot of every "AI gone wrong" movie ever made. We chose the boring path: read everything, touch nothing. Our therapist says this is healthy.

What They Have That We Don't

In the interest of full transparency (and because our lawyers said we had to):

Some servers can mute/unmute hosts and schedule downtimes (write operations we intentionally excluded because we enjoy sleeping)
Some servers can CRUD monitors and dashboards (see above re: AI movies, and also re: sleeping)
Some servers have unique metric field exploration tools

We sleep extremely well at night.

Configuration Reference

Regional Endpoints

Set --site for your Datadog region:

Region	Site Value
US (default)	`datadoghq.com`
EU	`datadoghq.eu`
US3 (GovCloud)	`ddog-gov.com`
US5	`us5.datadoghq.com`
AP1	`ap1.datadoghq.com`

Environment Variables

Alternative to command-line arguments:

DD_API_KEY=your_api_key
DD_APP_KEY=your_app_key
DD_SITE=datadoghq.com          # Optional, defaults to datadoghq.com
DD_LOGS_SITE=logs.datadoghq.com # Optional, override for logs API
DD_METRICS_SITE=api.datadoghq.com # Optional, override for metrics API

Logging

Variable	Values	Default	Description
`LOG_LEVEL`	`debug`, `info`, `warn`, `error`	`info`	Minimum log level
`LOG_FORMAT`	`json`, `pretty`	`json`	Output format (`pretty` for local dev)

# Pretty logs for development
LOG_FORMAT=pretty npx github:dreamiurg/datadog-mcp --apiKey ... --appKey ...

Application Key Scopes (for least-privilege security)

Create an Application Key with only the scopes you need:

Scope	Tools Unlocked
`monitors_read`	`get-monitors`, `get-monitor`, `search-monitors`, `get-monitor-config-policies`, `list-monitor-notification-rules`
`dashboards_read`	`get-dashboards`, `get-dashboard`, `list-dashboard-lists`
`metrics_read`	`get-metrics`, `get-metric-metadata`, `query-metrics`, `search-metric-volumes`, `get-metric-tag-config`, `list-metric-tag-configs`
`events_read`	`get-events`
`logs_read_data`	`search-logs`, `aggregate-logs`, `get-log-pipelines`, `get-log-indexes`, `get-logs-pipeline-order`, `get-logs-archive-order`, `list-logs-metrics`
`hosts_read`	`get-hosts`, `get-host-tags`, `get-active-hosts-count`, `list-host-totals`
`containers_read`	`list-containers`, `get-containers`
`monitors_downtime`	`get-downtimes`, `list-downtime-schedules`
`slos_read`	`get-slos`, `get-slo`, `get-slo-history`, `get-slo-corrections`, `search-slos`
`apm_read`	`search-spans`, `aggregate-spans`, `get-trace`, `search-apm-events`, `list-active-apm-events`, `list-spans-metrics`
`apm_service_catalog_read`	`get-services`, `get-service-dependencies`, `list-service-definitions`, `get-service-definition`
`rum_read`	`search-rum-events`, `list-rum-applications`, `aggregate-rum-events`
`synthetics_read`	`get-synthetic-tests`, `get-synthetic-results`, `list-synthetics-global-variables`, `list-synthetics-locations`, `list-synthetics-private-locations`
`security_monitoring_findings_read`	`search-security-findings`, `get-security-finding`, `list-posture-findings`, `search-security-signals`, `list-vulnerabilities`
`security_monitoring_rules_read`	`list-security-rules`, `list-security-monitoring-rules`
`csm_agents_read`	`get-csm-coverage`, `list-csm-threats-agent-rules`
`teams_read`	`list-teams`, `list-team-members`
`user_access_read`	`list-users`
`notebooks_read`	`list-notebooks`, `get-notebook`
`ci_visibility_pipelines_read`	`list-ci-pipelines`, `get-ci-pipeline-events`
`ci_visibility_read`	`list-ci-tests`, `search-ci-test-events`
`error_tracking_read`	`search-error-tracking-issues`, `get-error-tracking-issue`
`audit_trail_read`	`search-audit-logs`
`dbm_read`	`get-dbm-samples`, `get-dbm-query-metrics`
`usage_read`	`get-hourly-usage`, `get-top-avg-metrics`, `get-estimated-cost`
`ndm_read`	`list-network-devices`, `aggregate-network-connections`
`aws_configuration_read`	`list-aws-accounts`
`api_keys_read`	`list-api-keys`, `list-app-keys`
`auth_n_mappings_read`	`list-authn-mappings`
`incident_read`	`search-incidents`, `get-incident-todos`, `get-incident-timeline`, `get-incident-services`
`dora_deployment_read`	`list-dora-deployments`
`workflows_read`	`list-workflows`, `list-workflow-executions`
`fleet_read`	`list-fleet-agents`
`cost_management_read`	`list-cost-budgets`

Create a scoped key: Organization Settings -> Application Keys -> New Key -> Select scopes

Troubleshooting

403 Forbidden

Verify API key and Application key are correct
Check your Application Key has required scopes
Confirm you're using the correct regional endpoint

Connection Issues

# Check MCP server status
claude mcp list

# View logs (Claude Desktop - macOS)
tail -f ~/Library/Logs/Claude/mcp*.log

# View logs (Claude Desktop - Windows)
Get-Content "$env:APPDATA\Claude\Logs\mcp*.log" -Tail 20 -Wait

Debug Mode

LOG_LEVEL=debug LOG_FORMAT=pretty npx github:dreamiurg/datadog-mcp --apiKey ... --appKey ...

Development

git clone https://github.com/dreamiurg/datadog-mcp.git
cd datadog-mcp
npm install
npm run build
npm test

Script	Description
`npm run build`	Compile TypeScript
`npm test`	Run tests (570 tests in 120 files)
`npm run test:coverage`	Run tests with coverage (90%+ enforced)
`npm run lint`	Run Biome linter
`npm run typecheck`	Type check
`npm run complexity`	Check cyclomatic complexity
`npm run ci`	Run everything (the full gauntlet)

Test with MCP Inspector

npx @modelcontextprotocol/inspector node dist/index.js \
  --apiKey=YOUR_API_KEY \
  --appKey=YOUR_APP_KEY

Contributing

PRs welcome. We have strong opinions about read-only access, 90% test coverage, and cognitive complexity under 15. If that sounds like fun, you'll fit right in.

License

MIT - Use freely in personal and commercial projects.

Disclaimer

In case it wasn't abundantly, blindingly, neon-sign-in-the-desert obvious: the comparison tables above are written with tongue so firmly in cheek it's coming out the other side. This is sarcasm. We are being sarcastic. If you're still not sure, yes, that was also sarcasm.

Every single Datadog MCP server out there was built by engineers who cared enough to ship something real into the world. That's more than most people do on a Saturday. Open source is better when there are options, and the ecosystem is better because all of these projects exist.

If our 117 read-only tools aren't what you need, genuinely and sincerely: go find the one that is. Try them all. Mix and match. Build your own. Fork ours and add write operations if you're feeling brave (and have good backups). The best tool is the one that fits your workflow, not the one with the spiciest README.

Now go build something great. Sleep tight.

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Datadog MCP Server

Why This One?

The Philosophy

Quick Start

Setup

1. Get Datadog Credentials

2. Configure Your AI Tool

The Full Arsenal (117 Tools)

The Competitive Landscape (We Did the Research So You Don't Have To)

What They Have That We Don't

Configuration Reference

Regional Endpoints

Environment Variables

Logging

Troubleshooting

Development

Test with MCP Inspector

Contributing

License

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Datadog MCP Server

Why This One?

The Philosophy

Quick Start

Setup

1. Get Datadog Credentials

2. Configure Your AI Tool

The Full Arsenal (117 Tools)

The Competitive Landscape (We Did the Research So You Don't Have To)

What They Have That We Don't

Configuration Reference

Regional Endpoints

Environment Variables

Logging

Troubleshooting

Development

Test with MCP Inspector

Contributing

License

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