Datadog MCP
Official Datadog managed MCP server covering logs, metrics, traces, incidents, and dashboards. HTTP-only transport, hosted by Datadog with regional endpoints (US1, EU, etc.). 6 commits on main in the last 30 days. Stars are modest (35) reflecting recent launch.
“Official Datadog managed MCP server covering logs, metrics, traces, incidents, and dashboards. HTTP-only transport, hosted by Datadog with regional endpoints (US1, EU, etc.). 6 commits on main in the last 30 days. Stars are modest (35) reflecting recent launch; the official-vendor signal carries the score.”
INSTALL THIS SERVER
{
"mcpServers": {
"datadog": {
"type": "http",
"url": "https://mcp.datadoghq.com/api/unstable/mcp-server/mcp"
}
}
}
{
"mcpServers": {
"datadog": {
"type": "http",
"url": "https://mcp.datadoghq.com/api/unstable/mcp-server/mcp"
}
}
}
{
"mcpServers": {
"datadog": {
"type": "http",
"url": "https://mcp.datadoghq.com/api/unstable/mcp-server/mcp"
}
}
}
{
"mcpServers": {
"datadog": {
"type": "http",
"url": "https://mcp.datadoghq.com/api/unstable/mcp-server/mcp"
}
}
}
{
"mcpServers": {
"datadog": {
"type": "http",
"url": "https://mcp.datadoghq.com/api/unstable/mcp-server/mcp"
}
}
}
7 TOOLS AVAILABLE
OUR ASSESSMENT
- Official Datadog Labs maintenance.
- MIT licence.
- 6 commits on main in the last 30 days.
- HTTP-only transport: no local install required, hosted by Datadog.
- Regional endpoints: US1, EU1, US3, US5, AP1 each have a dedicated MCP URL.
- Marked unstable in the URL path: Datadog has signalled the API may evolve.
- Setup is one shell command via claude mcp add --transport http datadog.
- HTTP-only transport: stdio fallback is unavailable for offline or air-gapped agents.
- Unstable URL path means breaking changes are explicitly possible.
- Authentication mechanism handled by Datadog; tokens are managed via the Datadog dashboard.
- 35 GitHub stars; community-contributed tooling around the MCP is minimal.
The hosted MCP sees all queries and returns Datadog data including potentially sensitive logs. The token attached to the agent grants its scoped Datadog permissions; use Datadog RBAC to scope agent tokens to specific environments and data sources. Datadog data-handling policies cover the hosted MCP.
Datadog customers who want agents to query observability data (logs, metrics, traces, incidents) inside the editor; incident response workflows where the agent triages signals against Datadog data; teams already on Datadog Bits AI who want a programmatic surface for the same data.
TECHNICAL DETAILS
ADOPTION METRICS
// Reading this35 stars on the datadog-labs/mcp-server repo. 6 commits on main in the last 30 days. Official Datadog Labs maintenance carries the editorial weight.
// Reading thisFirst-ranked in monitoring on official-vendor signal for Datadog observability data.
SOURCES & VERIFICATION
We don't take any single directory's word for it. Before scoring, we cross-reference 4 public MCP sources, install the server ourselves against the clients we cover, and record when we last re-verified.
The same server, 4 different lenses. We reconcile these signals into our editorial score, which is why our number sometimes diverges from a directory-aggregate star count.
| Source | Their rating | Their star count | Their downloads | Last synced |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| AutomationSwitch This page | 4editorial | 35 | — | MAY 3, 2026 |
| PulseMCP | — unrated | unavailable | unavailable | MAY 3, 2026 |
| MCP.so | — unrated | unavailable | unavailable | MAY 3, 2026 |
| Glama | — unrated | unavailable | unavailable | MAY 3, 2026 |
| Official MCP Registry | — unrated | unavailable | unavailable | MAY 3, 2026 |
// Counts are directory-reported; we don't adjust them. Discrepancies usually come from different snapshot times or star-caching.
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