datadog

A skill for using Datadog, a monitoring service for application logs, metrics, traces, alerts, and incidents, through its command-line tool.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to search logs, inspect monitors and incidents, compare application latency, errors, and traffic, and query metrics.
Why use it?
It gives a focused process for investigating errors and operational problems using narrow time ranges, services, environments, and signal types.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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.

agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/baleen37/bstack/datadog
Any agent
npx skills add baleen37/bstack --skill datadog
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/baleen37/bstack

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Per session 25 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 364 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. Scan, not verified.
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 $0.00025 $0.00364
Opus 5 $0.00013 $0.00182
Sonnet 5 $0.00005 $0.00073
Haiku 4.5 $0.00003 $0.00036

Measured yesterday against content hash 8cbd4ac1620f, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, 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 yesterday.

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.

plugins/datadog/skills/datadog/SKILL.md · 54 lines

What it actually says

Datadog

Use the pup CLI. This plugin intentionally does not configure a Datadog MCP server.

Setup

pup auth login

Environment-variable auth is also supported when OAuth is not available:

export DD_API_KEY=...
export DD_APP_KEY=...
export DD_SITE=datadoghq.com

Workflow

  1. Check authentication with pup auth status or a small read-only command.
  2. Start investigations with a narrow time window, service, environment, and signal type.
  3. Prefer JSON output when results need to be filtered or cited.
  4. For logs, search exact error signatures first, then broaden to service and status.
  5. For monitors or incidents, inspect current state before suggesting updates.

Command Discovery

pup --help
pup logs --help
pup monitors --help
pup apm --help

Essential Patterns

  • Logs: use exact error text, service, env, and a short time window first.
  • Monitors: inspect current alert state and history before proposing changes.
  • APM: compare latency, error rate, and throughput for the same service and environment.
  • Metrics: state the query, rollup, group-by, and time window with the result.
  • Incidents: collect timeline, impacted services, active monitors, and owner before summarizing.

Safety

  • Avoid dumping high-volume logs into the conversation.
  • Redact tokens, customer identifiers, and sensitive attributes.
  • State the exact time range, query, and command used for evidence.
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. yesterday First seen · 54 lines · 25 tokens per session scan A 8cbd4ac1620f

Subscribe to this mod's changes

datadog is a skill published in the GitHub repository baleen37/bstack (4 stars, last pushed 11d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 25 tokens to every session and 364 once invoked, about $0.0001 per session on Opus 5. 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 2026-08-31.

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