Datadog MCP Server

A Model Context Protocol (MCP) server that provides comprehensive Datadog monitoring capabilities through Claude Desktop and other MCP clients.

Features

This MCP server enables Claude to:

• CI/CD Pipeline Management: List CI pipelines, extract fingerprints
• Service Logs Analysis: Retrieve and analyze service logs with environment and time filtering
• Metrics Monitoring: Query any Datadog metric with flexible filtering, aggregation, and field discovery
• Monitoring & Alerting: List and manage Datadog monitors and Service Level Objectives (SLOs)
• Service Definitions: List and retrieve detailed service definitions with metadata, ownership, and configuration
• Team Management: List teams, view member details, and manage team information

Quick Start

Choose your preferred method to run the Datadog MCP server:

🚀 UVX Direct Run (Recommended)

export DD_API_KEY="your-datadog-api-key" DD_APP_KEY="your-datadog-application-key"

# Latest version (HEAD)
uvx --from git+https://github.com/shelfio/datadog-mcp.git datadog-mcp

# Specific version (recommended for production)
uvx --from git+https://github.com/shelfio/datadog-mcp.git@v0.0.5 datadog-mcp

# Specific branch
uvx --from git+https://github.com/shelfio/datadog-mcp.git@main datadog-mcp

🔧 UV Quick Run (Development)

export DD_API_KEY="your-datadog-api-key" DD_APP_KEY="your-datadog-application-key"
git clone https://github.com/shelfio/datadog-mcp.git /tmp/datadog-mcp && cd /tmp/datadog-mcp && uv run ddmcp/server.py

🐳 Podman (Optional)

podman run -e DD_API_KEY="your-datadog-api-key" -e DD_APP_KEY="your-datadog-application-key" -i $(podman build -q https://github.com/shelfio/datadog-mcp.git)

Method Comparison:

| Method | Speed | Latest Code | Setup | Best For | |--------|-------|-------------|-------|----------| | 🚀 UVX Direct Run | ⚡⚡⚡ | ✅ (versioned) | Minimal | Production, Claude Desktop | | 🔧 UV Quick Run | ⚡⚡ | ✅ (bleeding edge) | Clone Required | Development, Testing | | 🐳 Podman | ⚡ | ✅ (bleeding edge) | Podman Required | Containerized Environments |

Requirements

For UVX/UV Methods

• Python 3.13+
• UV package manager (includes uvx)
• Datadog API Key and Application Key

For Podman Method

• Podman
• Datadog API Key and Application Key

Version Management

When using UVX, you can specify exact versions for reproducible deployments:

Version Formats

• Latest: git+https://github.com/shelfio/datadog-mcp.git (HEAD)
• Specific Tag: git+https://github.com/shelfio/datadog-mcp.git@v0.0.5
• Branch: git+https://github.com/shelfio/datadog-mcp.git@main
• Commit Hash: git+https://github.com/shelfio/datadog-mcp.git@59f0c15

Recommendations

• Production: Use specific tags (e.g., @v0.0.5) for stability
• Development: Use latest or specific branch for newest features
• Testing: Use commit hashes for exact reproducibility

See GitHub releases for all available versions.

Claude Desktop Integration

Using UVX (Recommended)

Add to Claude Desktop configuration:

Latest version (bleeding edge):

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "datadog": {
      "command": "uvx",
      "args": ["--from", "git+https://github.com/shelfio/datadog-mcp.git", "datadog-mcp"],
      "env": {
        "DD_

... [View full README on GitHub](https://github.com/shelfio/datadog-mcp#readme)