datadog

datadog is a skill for Claude Code from bobmatnyc/claude-mpm-skills. It costs 43 tokens per session (1,657 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A guide to Datadog, a hosted service for watching applications, servers, logs, and user experience in one place.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to set up tracing, log collection, metrics, browser and API checks, dashboards, alerts, and monitoring-cost controls.
Why use it?
It helps you find errors, slow requests, and unusual behavior in production systems before they become harder to diagnose.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: disable-model-invocation in frontmatter.

Good fit Use it to set up tracing, log collection, metrics, browser and API checks, dashboards, alerts, and monitoring-cost controls.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/bobmatnyc/claude-mpm-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 bobmatnyc/claude-mpm-skills --skill datadog
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/bobmatnyc/claude-mpm-skills

Made for: Claude Code.

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A badge with what this costs and how it scanned, read live from this page, so it follows the numbers instead of freezing them. Markdown for a README, HTML for a documentation site or a project page.

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README.md
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Per session 43 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,657 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 warn 7 Sept 2026
SkillSpector: 2 findings, up to high

These are SkillSpector’s own severities. On a checked sample its high-severity flags on skills were ~96% false positives — a documented command, a public API, a “never do X” rule — so we show them as a caution to read, not a verdict. Why →

  • high Privilege Escalation · line 74
    Potential security issue detected. Manual review is recommended.
    Fix: Review the flagged content for security risks. Ensure no credentials, secrets, or sensitive data are exposed.
  • medium MCP Rug Pull · line 71
    Docker image references without a specific tag (:latest is implicit) or digest (@sha256:...) can be silently replaced by a malicious image.
    Fix: Pin the image: image:tag or image@sha256:abc123
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 $0.00043 $0.01657
Opus 5 $0.00022 $0.00829
Sonnet 5 $0.00009 $0.00331
Haiku 4.5 $0.00004 $0.00166

Measured 7d ago against content hash 53e26a52e8b8, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-11, 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 7d ago.

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.

toolchains/platforms/observability/datadog/SKILL.md · 205 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 205 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Datadog Observability

Overview

Datadog is a SaaS observability platform providing unified monitoring across infrastructure, applications, logs, and user experience. It offers AI-powered anomaly detection, 1000+ integrations, and OpenTelemetry compatibility.

Core Capabilities:

  • APM: Distributed tracing with automatic instrumentation for 8+ languages
  • Infrastructure: Host, container, and cloud service monitoring
  • Logs: Centralized collection with processing pipelines and 15-month retention
  • Metrics: Custom metrics via DogStatsD with cardinality management
  • Synthetics: Proactive API and browser testing from 29+ global locations
  • RUM: Frontend performance with Core Web Vitals and session replay

When to Use This Skill

Activate when:

  • Setting up production monitoring and observability
  • Implementing distributed tracing across microservices
  • Configuring log aggregation and analysis pipelines
  • Creating custom metrics and dashboards
  • Setting up alerting and anomaly detection
  • Optimizing Datadog costs

Do not use when:

  • Building with open-source stack (use Prometheus/Grafana instead)
  • Cost is primary concern and budget is limited
  • Need maximum customization over managed solution

Quick Start

1. Install Datadog Agent

Docker (simplest):

docker run -d --name dd-agent \
  -e DD_API_KEY=<YOUR_API_KEY> \
  -e DD_SITE="datadoghq.com" \
  -v /var/run/docker.sock:/var/run/docker.sock:ro \
  -v /proc/:/host/proc/:ro \
  -v /sys/fs/cgroup/:/host/sys/fs/cgroup:ro \
  gcr.io/datadoghq/agent:7

Kubernetes (Helm):

helm repo add datadog https://helm.datadoghq.com
helm install datadog-agent datadog/datadog \
  --set datadog.apiKey=<YOUR_API_KEY> \
  --set datadog.apm.enabled=true \
  --set datadog.logs.enabled=true

2. Instrument Your Application

Python:

from ddtrace import tracer, patch_all

# Automatic instrumentation for common libraries
patch_all()

# Manual span for custom operations
with tracer.trace("custom.operation", service="my-service") as span:
    span.set_tag("user.id", user_id)
    # your code here

Read the full file on GitHub · 205 lines

Files

What ships with it

8 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. 7d ago First seen · 205 lines · 43 tokens per session scan A 53e26a52e8b8

Subscribe to this mod's changes

datadog is a skill published in the GitHub repository bobmatnyc/claude-mpm-skills (74 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 43 tokens to every session and 1,657 once invoked, about $0.0002 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 2026-09-03.