Profiles your local test runs, cross-references them against your team's production incident history, and flags failure patterns inline in your editor.
Installation
Launch VS Code Quick Open (Ctrl+P), paste the following command, and press enter.
Turns traces and profiles — from local test runs and your production APM — into AI agent memory. Profiles your test runs, looks up the function you're editing in Datadog, and flags failure patterns inline before the PR opens.
How it works
From your test runs
You run pytest / jest / vitest in VS Code (test explorer or terminal task).
Codela wraps the run with OpenTelemetry auto-instrumentation, pointing at a collector embedded in the extension (localhost:4318).
When the run finishes, Codela POSTs the trace to the Codela server (/profile endpoint).
The server matches trace signals — query counts, span trees, call durations — against your team's production pattern library.
Any matches land back in the editor as inline red/orange annotations on the offending lines. Hovering shows the pattern name, prod incident evidence, and suggested fix.
From your APM (Datadog)
If you connect Datadog, Codela uses the function you're working on as a join key into your production traces (via the @code.function tag set by Datadog's Source Code Integration). You get p50/p95/p99, error rate, and slow exemplars surfaced directly in the IDE — no manual context switching to your APM dashboard.
Credentials are stored in VS Code's encrypted SecretStorage and forwarded per-request; they never persist on Codela's servers.
Open the panel with the matched pattern's evidence
Codela: Show Trace Waterfall
Open the call-tree waterfall view
Codela: Reset Setup
Clear cached setup state; re-checks dependencies on next run
Codela: Configure Datadog Credentials
Set API key, App key, site, service tag — credentials go to SecretStorage
Codela: Test Datadog Connection
Smoke-test the live /datadog/function query for a function you name
Development
cd ide/vscode
npm install
npm run compile
# Open this directory in VS Code and press F5 to launch an Extension Development Host
Configuration
Setting
Default
Description
codela.serverUrl
https://api.usecodela.com
Codela server base URL
codela.companyId
""
Scope pattern matches to your company
codela.autoProfileOnTestRun
true
Auto-wrap pytest/jest runs with OTEL
codela.profileTimeoutSeconds
60
Max seconds Scalene can profile before being interrupted
codela.datadog.site
datadoghq.com
Datadog site (datadoghq.com, datadoghq.eu, us3.datadoghq.com, us5.datadoghq.com, ddog-gov.com)
codela.datadog.service
""
Datadog service tag for this repo (e.g. payments-api)
codela.datadog.env
production
Datadog environment tag to query
Datadog API key and App Key are not stored in settings.json — they live in VS Code's encrypted SecretStorage. Set them via the Codela: Configure Datadog Credentials command.
