Datadog Metrics Skill

Query metrics and explore dashboards in Datadog.

Tools

| Tool | Description | |------|-------------| | query_metrics | Execute metric queries with aggregations | | list_metrics | List available metrics matching a pattern | | get_metric_metadata | Get metadata for a specific metric | | list_dashboards | List all available dashboards | | get_dashboard | Get dashboard definition and widgets |

Example Queries

Query CPU utilization for network devices
→ query_metrics(query="avg:system.cpu.user{role:network_device} by {host}", time_range="1h")

Get interface traffic metrics
→ query_metrics(query="sum:network.bytes_rcvd{*} by {interface}", time_range="4h")

List all network-related metrics
→ list_metrics(pattern="network.*")

Get a specific dashboard
→ get_dashboard(dashboard_id="abc-def-123")

Workflows

Network Performance Monitoring

1. Query interface utilization: query_metrics(query="avg:network.bytes_sent{*} by {host,interface}")
2. Check error rates: query_metrics(query="sum:network.errors{*} by {host}")
3. Monitor latency percentiles: query_metrics(query="p99:network.latency{*}")
4. Compare against SLA thresholds

Infrastructure Health Assessment

1. List all infrastructure metrics: list_metrics(pattern="system.*")
2. Query CPU/memory across fleet: query_metrics(query="avg:system.cpu.user{*} by {availability_zone}")
3. Identify outliers and degradation
4. Check dashboard for historical trends

Capacity Planning

1. Query peak utilization: query_metrics(query="max:system.disk.used{*} by {host}", time_range="30d")
2. Calculate growth rate
3. Forecast exhaustion dates
4. Generate capacity report

Prerequisites

• DD_API_KEY Datadog API key
• DD_APP_KEY Datadog application key
• DD_SITE Datadog site (optional, defaults to datadoghq.com)

Server

This skill uses the datadog-mcp server via remote MCP transport.