Datadog MCP Server — VS Code Extension

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VS Code extension that registers the Datadog MCP Server, making all 16 tools available to GitHub Copilot and other AI assistants.

Installation

Search for "Datadog MCP Server" in the VS Code marketplace.

Open Settings → search "Datadog MCP":

Setting	Description
`datadogApiKey`	Your Datadog API key
`datadogAppKey`	Your Datadog Application key
`datadogSite`	Datadog site (default: `datadoghq.com`)
`maxResults`	Max results per query (default: 100)
`logRetentionDays`	Max log query lookback (default: 15)
`timeoutMs`	API timeout in ms (default: 30000)
`allowedTags`	Comma-separated tag filter

After installation and configuration:

Try these prompts in GitHub Copilot Chat (with the Datadog MCP server started):

"Show me error logs from the api-gateway service in the last hour" → searches logs with filter
"Are any monitors currently alerting?" → lists monitors filtered by alert state
"Query CPU usage for hosts tagged env:production over the past 6 hours" → queries timeseries metrics
"Create a monitor that alerts when disk usage exceeds 85% on any host" → creates a new metric monitor
"What services does user-service depend on?" → fetches the APM service dependency map
"List all dashboards related to Kubernetes" → searches dashboards by name
"Show me the slowest APM traces in checkout-service from today" → searches traces sorted by duration
"Get details for dashboard abc-def-123" → fetches full dashboard layout with widgets
"List all hosts in the staging environment with their load metrics" → queries host infrastructure
"Mute the 'High Latency' monitor for 30 minutes while we deploy" → creates a downtime on the monitor