datadog

datadog is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from ashish7802/awesome-api-skills. It costs 0 tokens per session (464 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A guide to the Datadog API, which lets software send monitoring data and manage dashboards in Datadog.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to submit metrics, attach searchable tags, send events, manage dashboards, and handle authentication or rate-limit errors.
Why use it?
It removes manual steps from collecting application measurements and configuring monitoring information.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for no agent in particular: nothing here depends on one.

Good fit Use it to submit metrics, attach searchable tags, send events, manage dashboards, and handle authentication or rate-limit errors.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/ashish7802/awesome-api-skills/datadog
Install

Getting it into your agent

One page per mod, every tool's command on it. A separate URL per tool would split the same page into five that compete with each other.

Any agent
npx skills add ashish7802/awesome-api-skills --skill datadog
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/ashish7802/awesome-api-skills

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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README.md
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Per session 0 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 464 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe. Third-party audits
  • NVIDIA SkillSpector pass 7 Sept 2026
How audits are shown
Origin original No closer match found in the catalogue.
Token cost

What it costs to keep this loaded

Counted locally with the o200k_base tokenizer, which is exact for GPT models; Claude uses its own tokenizer and its counts differ. Treat this as one consistent yardstick across the catalogue rather than a bill. Prices are per million input tokens.

ModelPer sessionOnce invoked
Fable 5.1 $0.00000 $0.00464
Opus 5 $0.00000 $0.00232
Sonnet 5 $0.00000 $0.00093
Haiku 4.5 $0.00000 $0.00046

Measured 8d ago against content hash 455923e6e84a, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-08, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

datadog scanned grade A with 0 findings against 26 rules in 11 categories — prompt injection, anti-refusal, data exfiltration, privilege escalation, supply chain, agent snooping, system-prompt leakage, SSRF and excessive agency — measured 8d ago.

The scan reads SKILL.md. This mod also ships 3 executable files (examples/example.py, examples/example.ts, tests/skill.test.ts), listed below but not scanned — reading those needs a real analyzer, not pattern matching.

A static scan of the body, not an audit. Every finding is printed with the line that produced it so you can judge whether it matters here. A mod is markdown that instructs an agent; that is exactly why what it instructs is worth reading.

Nothing flagged

None of the 26 patterns this scan looks for appear in this file: no shell pipes, no recursive deletes, no credential paths, no hidden text, no instruction-override or anti-refusal phrasing, no agent-config snooping. That is not a guarantee, it is the absence of the things that are checkable.

skills/datadog/SKILL.md · 61 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 61 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Datadog API Skill

Overview

The Datadog API allows you to submit metrics, events, and manage dashboards programmatically. This skill focuses on the @datadog/datadog-api-client library.

Installation

npm install @datadog/datadog-api-client
pip install datadog-api-client

Authentication

Requires two headers: DD-API-KEY (for submitting data) and DD-APPLICATION-KEY (for reading data or managing configuration).

Core Concepts

  • Metric: Time-series data points.
  • Tags: Key:Value pairs attached to metrics (crucial for filtering).
  • Monitor: An alert configured to trigger on thresholds.

Common Workflows

  1. Instantiate the API client.
  2. Construct a Series object with points and tags.
  3. Call metricsApi.submitMetrics.

Error Handling

Catch HTTP 403 (Invalid Keys) and HTTP 429. If submitting metrics fails, log the response.body.errors array.

Security

API keys have agent-level permissions. Application keys should be scoped strictly (e.g., dashboards_read).

Rate Limits

Submit Metrics endpoint allows 100 requests per 10 seconds. Use batching heavily.

Best Practices

Batch metrics before sending. Never submit a single data point per API call in high-throughput environments.

Troubleshooting

If metrics don't appear, ensure the UNIX timestamp attached to your points is in seconds, not milliseconds.

References

Why use this skill

Use this when your agent works with datadog — structured patterns beat pasted docs and prevent common hallucinations.

AI pitfalls

  • Using outdated SDK or API versions from training data
  • Inventing environment variable names
  • Omitting error handling and retry logic

Production checklist

  • Secrets in environment variables, not source code
  • Error handling and logging in place
  • Rate limits and timeouts configured
  • No graph relationships yet — see the knowledge graph in the docs site.

Last Verified: 2026-07-02

Read the full file on GitHub · 61 lines

Files

What ships with it

5 files beside SKILL.md in the same directory: the scripts, references and assets a skill reads on demand. Not counted in the per-session cost; read them before you install if any of them is executable.

Changes

What this file has done since we first saw it

Hashed on every crawl. A supply-chain change to an agent config is a question of when, not whether, so the history is kept rather than the latest state alone.

  1. 8d ago First seen · 61 lines · 0 tokens per session scan A 455923e6e84a

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datadog is a skill published in the GitHub repository ashish7802/awesome-api-skills (13 stars, last pushed 8d ago), licensed MIT. It costs nothing until one of its globs matches a file; then it loads 464 tokens. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-30.