A guide for setting up and using Datadog APM, a service that tracks how applications perform and how requests move between services.

Use it for Datadog APM installation, application instrumentation, service maps, dependency checks, and performance analysis.

It helps developers install tracing, connect services, and investigate slow or failing application requests.

dd-apm — Skill for Claude Code and Codex by neverinfamous

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 neverinfamous/mysql-mcp --skill dd-apm

Clone the repo

git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/neverinfamous/mysql-mcp

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Wrote this? Show the measurements

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.

README.md

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Your own site

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Per session 54 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.

When invoked 1,801 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.

Origin 89% copy Near-identical to another mod 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.

Model	Per session	Once invoked
Fable 5.1	$0.00054	$0.01801
Opus 5	$0.00027	$0.00901
Sonnet 5	$0.00011	$0.00360
Haiku 4.5	$0.00005	$0.00180

Measured 7d ago against content hash c889fa82ab91, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

dd-apm 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.

Origin

This is a copy

89% identical to dd-apm — 6 lines differ, which has more behind it and is treated as the original. This page carries a canonical link to it rather than competing with it.

skills/datadog/dd-apm/SKILL.md · 179 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 179 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Datadog APM

Distributed tracing, service maps, and performance analysis.

Routing — Read This First

Match the user's request to one of the entries below. Each entry has the same shape: triggers → which sub-skill to load → the anti-pattern to avoid. If a request seems to fit more than one entry, see "Overlap disambiguation". If nothing matches, see "None of the above" at the end.

Kubernetes APM install / instrument / onboard — trigger when the user mentions Kubernetes, K8s, EKS, GKE, AKS, kind, minikube, K3s, helm, DatadogAgent CR, kubectl, SSI on a cluster, pod injection, or init containers.

Immediately read k8s-ssi/agent-install/SKILL.md now, then k8s-ssi/enable-ssi/SKILL.md, then k8s-ssi/verify-ssi/SKILL.md — do not proceed from memory.

Common wrong approaches that LOOK like they work but silently fail:

helm install datadog datadog/datadog — the standard chart does NOT support SSI via DatadogAgent CR.

Adding ddtrace imports or ddtrace-run to the app — SSI auto-instruments WITHOUT any code changes.

admission.datadoghq.com/enabled annotations — that's admission controller config injection, not SSI init container injection.

Linux APM install / instrument / onboard — trigger when the user mentions a single host, VM, EC2 instance, bare-metal, RHEL/Ubuntu/Debian, systemd, or no orchestrator.

Immediately read linux-ssi/agent-install/SKILL.md now, then linux-ssi/enable-ssi/SKILL.md, then linux-ssi/verify-ssi/SKILL.md — do not proceed from memory.

Do NOT install the agent via plain apt-get install datadog-agent (or yum equivalent) and assume SSI follows — host auto-instrumentation requires the install script with the SSI flags, which the sub-skill walks through.

Service rename / service remapping — trigger when the user mentions renaming a service, collapsing multiple service names, stripping suffixes/prefixes, or cleaning up inferred services.

Immediately read service-remapping/SKILL.md now — do not proceed from memory.

Read the full file on GitHub · 179 lines

Files

What ships with it

11 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.

7d ago First seen · 179 lines · 54 tokens per session scan A c889fa82ab91

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dd-apm is a skill published in the GitHub repository neverinfamous/mysql-mcp (10 stars, last pushed 6d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 54 tokens to every session and 1,801 once invoked, about $0.0003 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. It is 89% identical to dd-apm, differing in 6 lines, and is treated as a copy.

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