datadog

Tools for querying Datadog, a service that stores application logs, performance measurements, request traces, and alert monitors. They use the Datadog API to inspect this operational data.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use them to search logs, inspect metrics and application traces, review monitors, debug production incidents, and investigate alerts.
Why use it?
They bring production evidence together when an application is slow, failing, or triggering an alert. This helps investigate what happened instead of relying on guesses.

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/openhands/extensions/datadog
Any agent
npx skills add OpenHands/extensions --skill datadog
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/OpenHands/extensions

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Per session 41 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 897 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 1 finding. 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 $0.00041 $0.00897
Opus 5 $0.00020 $0.00449
Sonnet 5 $0.00008 $0.00179
Haiku 4.5 $0.00004 $0.00090

Measured 2d ago against content hash c67db102d293, 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 1 finding 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 2d 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.

Makes network callslowCapability

Not a fault in itself. Listed so you know the mod talks to something, and to what.

Windows PowerShell equivalents for the Datadog `curl`, environment-variable, timestamp, and JSON formatting snippets are in `references/windows.md`.
skills/datadog/SKILL.md · 98 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 98 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Datadog

Windows PowerShell equivalents for the Datadog curl, environment-variable, timestamp, and JSON formatting snippets are in references/windows.md.

[ -n "$DD_API_KEY" ] && echo "DD_API_KEY is set" || echo "DD_API_KEY is NOT set"
[ -n "$DD_APP_KEY" ] && echo "DD_APP_KEY is set" || echo "DD_APP_KEY is NOT set"
[ -n "$DD_SITE" ] && echo "DD_SITE is set" || echo "DD_SITE is NOT set"

If any of these variables are missing, ask the user to provide them before proceeding:

  • DD_API_KEY: Datadog API key
  • DD_APP_KEY: Datadog Application key
  • DD_SITE: Datadog site (e.g., datadoghq.com, datadoghq.eu, us3.datadoghq.com)

Authentication Headers

-H "DD-API-KEY: ${DD_API_KEY}" \
-H "DD-APPLICATION-KEY: ${DD_APP_KEY}" \
-H "Content-Type: application/json"

Query Logs

curl -s -X POST "https://api.${DD_SITE}/api/v2/logs/events/search" \
  -H "DD-API-KEY: ${DD_API_KEY}" \
  -H "DD-APPLICATION-KEY: ${DD_APP_KEY}" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{
    "filter": {
      "query": "service:my-service status:error",
      "from": "now-1h",
      "to": "now"
    },
    "sort": "-timestamp",
    "page": {"limit": 50}
  }' | jq .

Query Metrics

curl -s -G "https://api.${DD_SITE}/api/v1/query" \
  -H "DD-API-KEY: ${DD_API_KEY}" \
  -H "DD-APPLICATION-KEY: ${DD_APP_KEY}" \
  --data-urlencode "query=avg:system.cpu.user{*}" \
  --data-urlencode "from=$(date -d '1 hour ago' +%s)" \
  --data-urlencode "to=$(date +%s)" | jq .

Query APM Traces

curl -s -X POST "https://api.${DD_SITE}/api/v2/spans/events/search" \
  -H "DD-API-KEY: ${DD_API_KEY}" \
  -H "DD-APPLICATION-KEY: ${DD_APP_KEY}" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{
    "filter": {
      "query": "service:my-service",
      "from": "now-1h",
      "to": "now"
    },
    "sort": "-timestamp",
    "page": {"limit": 25}
  }' | jq .

Read the full file on GitHub · 98 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. 2d ago First seen · 98 lines · 41 tokens per session scan A c67db102d293

Subscribe to this mod's changes

datadog is a skill published in the GitHub repository OpenHands/extensions (137 stars, last pushed 4d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 41 tokens to every session and 897 once invoked, about $0.0002 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 1 finding (makes network calls). No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-30.

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