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Datadog

Search logs, query metrics, investigate incidents, and monitor infrastructure

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Written by Johan Åkerman

Introduction

Connect Datadog to Sana to search logs, query metrics, investigate incidents, and monitor your infrastructure. Get insights from your observability data directly from Sana. In summary, the connector has the following key characteristics:

  • Category: Analytics

  • Connector type: Real-time

  • Auth type: API keys

  • Hosting type: Managed

Capabilities

This connector is able to do the following:

Capability

Find services

Find monitors

Find metrics

Find logs

Find incidents

Find hosts

Find dashboards

Add metric data

Tools

While the capabilities above describe what the connector can do at a high level, the underlying tools show exactly which operations the agent can use when you ask Sana about Datadog. In practice, the agent may call one or more tools to achieve a single capability.

Tool

Get account info

Get metric data

Post metric data

Search dashboards

Search events

Search hosts

Search incidents

Search logs

Search metrics

Search monitors

Search services

Scope and permissions

This connector uses API keys. When you connect your account, we securely store your keys to connect to this connector's APIs. The scopes for this connector depends on the scopes you assign your API key in Datadog when generating the key.

Set up instructions

Prerequisites:

  • Your Sana workspace admin has enabled this integration – if the workspace admin has disabled the integration it won't appear in the list of available integrations.

Step 1: Go to the integrations page in Sana

In Sana, click on ... More in the sidebar, then select Integrations

Step 2: Find Datadog in the list of available integrations

Scroll to the Available integrations section and locate Datadog.

Step 3: Connect the integration

Click the integration card and select "Connect just for me", this will open a pop-up powered by Pipedream. Follow the steps in the pop-up to complete the set-up.

Step 4: Provide your Datadog credentials

You'll be asked to paste the credentials for Datadog so Sana can store them securely and use them to call the connector's APIs on your behalf.

Step 5: Complete the set up

You've successfully connected your Datadog account. Click Continue to complete the setup and start using the connector.

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