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Datadog Docs

Use this skill to locate Datadog documentation and limits.

LLM-Friendly Documentation

Datadog provides an LLM-optimized documentation index at:

https://docs.datadoghq.com/llms.txt

This file contains:

Overview of all Datadog products organized by use case

Full list of documentation pages with URLs and descriptions

Direct links to Markdown sources (append .md to URLs)

How to Use llms.txt

Fetch the index to understand available documentation:

curl -s https://docs.datadoghq.com/llms.txt | head -100

Search for specific topics:

Examples:

curl -s https://docs.datadoghq.com/llms.txt | grep -i "monitors"
curl -s https://docs.datadoghq.com/llms.txt | grep -i "apm"
curl -s https://docs.datadoghq.com/llms.txt | grep -i "logs"

Fetch specific doc pages (add .md to most Datadog Docs URLs for raw content):
curl -s https://docs.datadoghq.com/monitors.md
curl -s https://docs.datadoghq.com/tracing.md

Key Documentation Sections

Topic
URL

APM/Tracing
https://docs.datadoghq.com/tracing/

Logs
https://docs.datadoghq.com/logs/

Metrics
https://docs.datadoghq.com/metrics/

Monitors
https://docs.datadoghq.com/monitors/

Dashboards
https://docs.datadoghq.com/dashboards/

Security
https://docs.datadoghq.com/security/

Synthetics
https://docs.datadoghq.com/synthetics/

RUM
https://docs.datadoghq.com/real_user_monitoring/

Incidents
https://docs.datadoghq.com/service_management/incident_management/

API Reference
https://docs.datadoghq.com/api/

Scope Guardrails

Use llms.txt for documentation lookups

Defer to official docs for feature availability and limits

Failure Handling

If docs.datadoghq.com is unreachable, check network connectivity

For region-specific docs, use appropriate site (datadoghq.eu, etc.)