datadog-cli

A command-line tool for investigating Datadog, a service that collects application logs, performance measurements, and request traces. It can search and stream logs, query metrics, follow traces, summarize errors, and manage dashboards.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to search or follow logs, inspect activity around a time, trace requests across services, query time-series metrics, group recurring log messages, compare periods, and review dashboards.
Why use it?
It brings production troubleshooting into the command line instead of requiring separate searches through Datadog's web interface. This helps connect errors, logs, metrics, and request activity during an incident.

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/davila7/claude-code-templates/datadog-cli
Any agent
npx skills add davila7/claude-code-templates --skill datadog-cli
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/davila7/claude-code-templates

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Per session 38 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,007 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 $0.00038 $0.01007
Opus 5 $0.00019 $0.00504
Sonnet 5 $0.00008 $0.00201
Haiku 4.5 $0.00004 $0.00101

Measured 3d ago against content hash d65cdb0087a7, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

datadog-cli 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 3d 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.

Origin

Copies of this mod

1 near-identical copy found in the catalogue:

cli-tool/components/skills/ai-research/datadog-cli/SKILL.md · 128 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 128 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Datadog CLI

A CLI tool for AI agents to debug and triage using Datadog logs and metrics.

Required Reading

You MUST read the relevant reference docs before using any command:

Setup

Environment Variables (Required)

export DD_API_KEY="your-api-key"
export DD_APP_KEY="your-app-key"

Get keys from: https://app.datadoghq.com/organization-settings/api-keys

Running the CLI

npx @leoflores/datadog-cli <command>

For non-US Datadog sites, use --site flag:

npx @leoflores/datadog-cli logs search --query "*" --site datadoghq.eu

Commands Overview

Command Description
logs search Search logs with filters
logs tail Stream logs in real-time
logs trace Find logs for a distributed trace
logs context Get logs before/after a timestamp
logs patterns Group similar log messages
logs compare Compare log counts between periods
logs multi Run multiple queries in parallel
logs agg Aggregate logs by facet
metrics query Query timeseries metrics
errors Quick error summary by service/type
services List services with log activity
dashboards Manage dashboards (CRUD)
dashboard-lists Manage dashboard lists

Quick Examples

Search Errors

npx @leoflores/datadog-cli logs search --query "status:error" --from 1h --pretty

Tail Logs (Real-time)

npx @leoflores/datadog-cli logs tail --query "service:api status:error" --pretty

Error Summary

npx @leoflores/datadog-cli errors --from 1h --pretty

Trace Correlation

npx @leoflores/datadog-cli logs trace --id "abc123def456" --pretty

Query Metrics

npx @leoflores/datadog-cli metrics query --query "avg:system.cpu.user{*}" --from 1h --pretty

Read the full file on GitHub · 128 lines

Files

What ships with it

6 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. 3d ago First seen · 128 lines · 38 tokens per session scan A d65cdb0087a7

Subscribe to this mod's changes

datadog-cli is a skill published in the GitHub repository davila7/claude-code-templates (30,476 stars, last pushed yesterday), licensed MIT. It adds 38 tokens to every session and 1,007 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 2026-08-30.