Datadog Docs

Use this skill to locate Datadog documentation and limits.

LLM-Friendly Documentation

Datadog provides an LLM-optimized documentation index at:

https://docs.datadoghq.com/llms.txt

This file contains:

Overview of all Datadog products organized by use case
Full list of documentation pages with URLs and descriptions
Direct links to Markdown sources (append .md to URLs)

How to Use llms.txt

Fetch the index to understand available documentation:

curl -s https://docs.datadoghq.com/llms.txt | head -100

Search for specific topics:

Examples:

curl -s https://docs.datadoghq.com/llms.txt | grep -i "monitors"
curl -s https://docs.datadoghq.com/llms.txt | grep -i "apm"
curl -s https://docs.datadoghq.com/llms.txt | grep -i "logs"

Fetch specific doc pages (add .md to most Datadog Docs URLs for raw content):

curl -s https://docs.datadoghq.com/monitors.md
curl -s https://docs.datadoghq.com/tracing.md

Key Documentation Sections

Topic	URL
APM/Tracing	https://docs.datadoghq.com/tracing/
Logs	https://docs.datadoghq.com/logs/
Metrics	https://docs.datadoghq.com/metrics/
Monitors	https://docs.datadoghq.com/monitors/
Dashboards	https://docs.datadoghq.com/dashboards/
Security	https://docs.datadoghq.com/security/
Synthetics	https://docs.datadoghq.com/synthetics/
RUM	https://docs.datadoghq.com/real_user_monitoring/
Incidents	https://docs.datadoghq.com/service_management/incident_management/
API Reference	https://docs.datadoghq.com/api/

Scope Guardrails

Use llms.txt for documentation lookups
Defer to official docs for feature availability and limits

Failure Handling

If docs.datadoghq.com is unreachable, check network connectivity
For region-specific docs, use appropriate site (datadoghq.eu, etc.)

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