datadog:setup

What problem does it solve?

Many projects lack a consistent Datadog configuration and valid API credentials, which causes failed monitoring queries, broken dashboards, and wasted time diagnosing connectivity issues. This Skill streamlines credential verification, MCP connectivity checks, and project-level default configuration so teams can reliably query logs, traces, and dashboards.

Core Features & Use Cases

• Credential verification: Checks for DD_API_KEY, DD_APP_KEY, and DD_SITE in your local Claude settings and explains where to obtain missing values.
• MCP connectivity tests: Discovers Datadog MCP tools and performs lightweight API calls to validate authentication and network reachability.
• Project defaults: Prompts to set a default service and search filter and writes or updates an invisible configuration block in the project's CLAUDE.md for consistent query scoping.
• Diagnostics and guidance: Provides targeted fixes for common failures such as missing keys, incorrect site, insufficient scopes, malformed JSON, or plugin installation issues.

Quick Start

Set up Datadog by verifying DD_API_KEY, DD_APP_KEY, and DD_SITE in your ~/.claude/settings.local.json, testing MCP connectivity, and optionally saving default service and filter settings to CLAUDE.md.