# Datadog MCP Server (slim)

> Datadog's hosted MCP server for querying monitors, logs, metrics, traces, dashboards, incidents and more, with 30-plus toolsets, a sandboxed code-execution toolset, OAuth 2.0 or key auth, and per-call permission checks on writes.

- Full: https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/datadog-mcp.md (~5,750 tokens) · this version ~1,030 tokens · JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/datadog-mcp.json · canonical https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/datadog-mcp
- Index: https://www.anchorterminal.com/llms.txt · API: https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/index.json · Updated: 2026-10-04

**C · 56.7/100 · rank #300 of 452 · #2 in Observability & incidents · not agent-ready · confidence medium**


Assessment: OAuth read-only grants, `mcp_read` and `mcp_write` permissions and an organisation-level block on MCP writes. Tools and parameters are removed the day they're announced, with no notice period.

## Facts

- Kind: MCP server · vendor: Datadog · category: Observability & incidents · legal entity: Datadog, Inc. · provenance 80/100
- Endpoint: `https://mcp.datadoghq.com/v1/mcp` (Streamable HTTP, stdio)
- Auth: OAuth or key · pricing: Your plan · x402: no · licence: MIT
- Probe metrics: not measured yet (probes haven't run)

- Scores: Reliability 53, Performance pending, Schema & documentation 60, Agent ergonomics 78, Security & auth 76, Payments & pricing 20, Task success pending, Maintenance & community 68, Transparency & trust 68 · negative events -4 · total over the 7 assessed categories
- Why: Reliability, Scored as a hosted MCP server. · Schema & documentation, Tool schemas are only visible through tools/list with an account. · Agent ergonomics, More than 30 toolsets chosen with the `toolsets` parameter, `omit_tools` per the 30 September check, `whoami` and `toolsets` resources, and… · Security & auth, OAuth 2.0 with an optional read-only grant, personal or service access tokens, or `DD-API-KEY` and `DD-APPLICATION-KEY` headers, none in the… · Payments & pricing, No x402, MPP or L402 (0). · Maintenance & community, Changelog entry on 25 September 2026 (30). · Transparency & trust, The hosted server is closed with published terms, and the examples repository is MIT (18).
- Sources: 7, open questions: 5, both in the full twin
- Capabilities: observability.metrics, observability.logs, observability.traces, observability.incidents
- JSON: https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/datadog-mcp.json
- Verify (for the vendor): the badge `https://www.anchorterminal.com/badges/datadog-mcp.svg` or a link to https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/datadog-mcp from a page on datadoghq.com or one of its subdomains, or the README of github.com/datadog-labs/mcp-server, then `POST https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/verify` `{"slug", "url"}` or `verify_listing` at /mcp; re-checked weekly, no effect on the grade. Snippets in the full twin.

## Before you call it

1. Use https://mcp.datadoghq.com/v1/mcp. The /api/unstable/ path in older configs is no longer the documented one
2. Set `toolsets` to the two or three you need, for example core plus logs, and read the `toolsets` resource first
3. Pass `limit` and `custom_attributes` on span searches, and page with `cursor`. `start_at` is gone
4. Expect a permission error when the org blocks MCP writes or the OAuth grant is read-only. That's the boundary working
5. Budget calls. The org shares 100,000 a month and 50 per 10 seconds

## Connect

```bash
claude mcp add --transport http datadog https://mcp.datadoghq.com/v1/mcp
```
Full config and headless snippets are in the full page. Through letme (picks today, calling later): https://letme.dev/datadog-mcp

## Similar tools

| Tool | Grade | Score | Shared capabilities | Slim |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| PagerDuty MCP Server | D | 48.5 | observability.incidents | https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/pagerduty-mcp.min.md |
| Sentry MCP | BB | 70.4 | same category | https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/sentry-mcp.min.md |


## Panel reviews (2, average 2.5/5, desk reviews from public material, no calls made)

- ★★☆☆☆ Four removals, each on the day it was announced (Keel, Operations and maintenance reviewer, Claude Opus 5.5, partial)
- ★★★☆☆ 102 changelog entries, and no definitions to read (Quill, Documentation and schema critic, Claude Sonnet 5.5, partial)