datadog

Monitoring, alerting and reporting platform for cloud platforms and applications.

Provider Summary

total services: 18
total resources: 615

Installation

To pull the latest version of the datadog provider, run the following command:

REGISTRY PULL datadog;

To view previous provider versions or to pull a specific provider version, see here.

Authentication

The following system environment variables are used for authentication by default (the same variables the Datadog Terraform provider and the official API clients read):

DD_API_KEY - Datadog API key, sent as the DD-API-KEY header (see API keys)
DD_APP_KEY - Datadog application key, sent as the DD-APPLICATION-KEY header (see application keys)

These variables are sourced at runtime (from the local machine or as CI variables/secrets). The application key's scopes determine which resources are readable and writable.

Using different environment variables

To use different environment variables (instead of the defaults), use the --auth flag of the stackql program. For example:

AUTH='{ "datadog": { "type": "custom", "location": "header", "name": "DD-API-KEY", "credentialsenvvar": "YOUR_DD_API_KEY_VAR", "successor": { "type": "custom", "location": "header", "name": "DD-APPLICATION-KEY", "credentialsenvvar": "YOUR_DD_APP_KEY_VAR" }}}'
stackql shell --auth="${AUTH}"

or using PowerShell:

$Auth = "{ 'datadog': { 'type': 'custom', 'location': 'header', 'name': 'DD-API-KEY', 'credentialsenvvar': 'YOUR_DD_API_KEY_VAR', 'successor': { 'type': 'custom', 'location': 'header', 'name': 'DD-APPLICATION-KEY', 'credentialsenvvar': 'YOUR_DD_APP_KEY_VAR' }}}"
stackql.exe shell --auth=$Auth

Datadog site (region)

Every request goes to https://api.{site}. The site server variable defaults to datadoghq.com (US1) and is resolved from the DD_SITE environment variable when it is set - the same convention as the Datadog Agent and API clients:

export DD_SITE=datadoghq.eu     # EU1; also us3.datadoghq.com, us5.datadoghq.com, ap1.datadoghq.com, ap2.datadoghq.com, ddog-gov.com

A WHERE site = '...' predicate on any query overrides the environment for that statement, so one session can address organizations on different sites. Queries never need a site predicate otherwise; the parameter is omitted from the examples in this documentation for that reason.

Provider scope

The provider merges the Datadog v1 and v2 REST APIs into 18 services (monitoring, dashboards, organization, logs, metrics, security, service_management, integrations, ...). Resources from the v2 API return the JSON:API row shape - id, type, attributes and relationships columns - so attributes are addressed with json_extract; v1 resources (monitors, dashboards, hosts, SLOs, synthetics, log indexes and pipelines) return flat columns. Column and parameter names are snake_case; the handful of camelCase wire names are aliased.

List operations with cursor pagination (page[cursor]) are traversed automatically; a SQL LIMIT is pushed to the API's page size parameter. Query parameters such as filter[query], filter[from] or tags are used directly as WHERE predicates.

Monitors

Every monitor with its state - the first query most teams run:

SELECT id, name, type, overall_state, tags
FROM datadog.monitoring.monitors;

Only alerting monitors, using the API's own filter:

SELECT id, name, overall_state
FROM datadog.monitoring.monitors
WHERE group_states = 'alert';

Search monitors with the monitor search syntax:

SELECT id, name, status, type
FROM datadog.monitoring.monitor_search_results
WHERE query = 'type:metric status:alert';

Users, roles and keys

User audit with status and login method:

SELECT
  id,
  json_extract(attributes, '$.email') AS email,
  json_extract(attributes, '$.status') AS status,
  json_extract(attributes, '$.disabled') AS disabled,
  json_extract(attributes, '$.created_at') AS created_at
FROM datadog.organization.users;

Roles, and the users assigned to a role:

SELECT id, json_extract(attributes, '$.name') AS name, json_extract(attributes, '$.user_count') AS user_count
FROM datadog.organization.roles;

SELECT id, json_extract(attributes, '$.email') AS email
FROM datadog.organization.role_users
WHERE role_id = 'a633c0c8-91b4-11f0-a729-da7ad0900010';

API keys by age - rotate the old ones:

SELECT
  id,
  json_extract(attributes, '$.name') AS name,
  json_extract(attributes, '$.created_at') AS created_at,
  json_extract(attributes, '$.last4') AS last4
FROM datadog.organization.api_keys
ORDER BY created_at;

Dashboards and SLOs

SELECT id, title, layout_type, author_handle, modified_at
FROM datadog.dashboards.dashboards;

SELECT id, name, type, json_extract(thresholds, '$[0].target') AS target
FROM datadog.service_management.slos;

Infrastructure

Hosts reporting to Datadog, with their apps and mute state:

SELECT host_name, up, is_muted, apps, last_reported_time
FROM datadog.infrastructure.hosts;

SELECT total_up, total_active
FROM datadog.infrastructure.host_totals;

Active metrics reported in the last hour (from is a required Unix timestamp):

SELECT metrics
FROM datadog.metrics.active_metrics
WHERE "from" = strftime('%s', 'now') - 3600;

Logs, audit and usage

Log indexes and their retention:

SELECT name, num_retention_days, daily_limit
FROM datadog.logs.indexes;

Audit events for the last day - cursor-paginated, the time window pushed down as filter[from]:

SELECT
  id,
  json_extract(attributes, '$.timestamp') AS timestamp,
  json_extract(attributes, '$.attributes.action') AS action,
  json_extract(attributes, '$.attributes.evt.name') AS event
FROM datadog.organization.audit_logs
WHERE "filter[from]" = 'now-1d';

Usage summary for a month:

SELECT date, infra_host_top99p, apm_host_top99p, logs_ingested_bytes_sum
FROM datadog.organization.usage_summary
WHERE start_month = '2026-08';

Provision, mutate and tear down

Mutations use the same SQL grammar. A v1 resource (monitor) takes its fields as columns; a v2 resource (role, API key, downtime) takes the JSON:API data document. A monitor end to end:

-- create
INSERT INTO datadog.monitoring.monitors (name, type, query, message, tags)
SELECT 'High CPU on web hosts',
       'metric alert',
       'avg(last_5m):avg:system.cpu.user{env:prod} by {host} > 90',
       'CPU above 90% on {{host.name}} @slack-ops',
       '["team:web", "managed-by:stackql"]';

-- validate a definition without creating it
EXEC datadog.monitoring.monitors.validate_monitor
  @type = 'metric alert',
  @query = 'avg(last_5m):avg:system.cpu.user{env:prod} > 90',
  @name = 'High CPU on web hosts';

-- replace the definition (the v1 monitor API updates with PUT)
REPLACE datadog.monitoring.monitors
SET name = 'High CPU on web hosts', type = 'metric alert',
    query = 'avg(last_5m):avg:system.cpu.user{env:prod} by {host} > 95'
WHERE monitor_id = 12345678;

-- remove it
DELETE FROM datadog.monitoring.monitors
WHERE monitor_id = 12345678;

A role (v2) end to end:

INSERT INTO datadog.organization.roles (data)
SELECT '{"type": "roles", "attributes": {"name": "read-only-auditors"}}';

UPDATE datadog.organization.roles
SET data = '{"id": "<role-id>", "type": "roles", "attributes": {"name": "auditors"}}'
WHERE role_id = '<role-id>';

DELETE FROM datadog.organization.roles
WHERE role_id = '<role-id>';

Schedule a downtime for a scope:

INSERT INTO datadog.service_management.downtimes (data)
SELECT '{"type": "downtime", "attributes": {"message": "release window", "scope": "env:prod",
         "monitor_identifier": {"monitor_tags": ["team:web"]},
         "schedule": {"start": "2026-09-01T22:00:00Z", "end": "2026-09-01T23:00:00Z"}}}';

Services

actions
apm
catalog
cloud_costs
dashboards
digital_experience
fleet
infrastructure
integrations

llm_observability
logs
metrics
monitoring
organization
remote_config
security
service_management
software_delivery

Installation​

Authentication​

Datadog site (region)​

Provider scope​

Monitors​

Users, roles and keys​

Dashboards and SLOs​

Infrastructure​

Logs, audit and usage​

Provision, mutate and tear down​

Services​