datadog mcp for VS Code
io.github.tantiope/datadog-mcp
Full Datadog API access: monitors, logs, metrics, traces, dashboards, and observability tools
client:VS Code
transport:stdio
runtime:npm
Install datadog mcp in VS Code
.vscode/mcp.json
{
"inputs": [
{
"type": "promptString",
"id": "dd-api-key",
"description": "DD_API_KEY",
"password": true
},
{
"type": "promptString",
"id": "dd-app-key",
"description": "DD_APP_KEY",
"password": true
},
{
"type": "promptString",
"id": "dd-site",
"description": "DD_SITE",
"password": true
}
],
"servers": {
"datadog-mcp": {
"type": "stdio",
"command": "npx",
"args": [
"-y",
"datadog-mcp"
],
"env": {
"DD_API_KEY": "${input:dd-api-key}",
"DD_APP_KEY": "${input:dd-app-key}",
"DD_SITE": "${input:dd-site}"
}
}
}
}VS Code prompts for each input the first time the server starts, so no secret is written to the file. VS Code docs