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🚀 Quickstart

Connect to Datadog with Nango and see data flow in 2 minutes.
1

Create the integration

In Nango (free signup), go to Integrations -> Configure New Integration -> Datadog (OAuth).
2

Authorize Datadog

Go to Connections -> Add Test Connection -> Authorize, then select your Datadog site and log in. Later, you’ll let your users do the same directly from your app.
3

Call the Datadog API

Let’s make your first request to the Datadog API (list events). Replace the placeholders below with your secret key, integration ID, and connection ID:
Or fetch credentials with the Node SDK or API.✅ You’re connected! Check the Logs tab in Nango to inspect requests.
4

Implement Nango in your app

Follow our Auth implementation guide to integrate Nango in your app.To obtain your own production credentials, follow the setup guide linked below.

📚 Datadog (OAuth) integration guides

Nango-maintained guides for common use cases. Official docs: OAuth2 in Datadog

🧩 Pre-built syncs & actions for Datadog (OAuth)

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API gotchas

  • Datadog’s OAuth authorize and token endpoints, and its API base URL, are all site-specific — pick the site matching where your users’ Datadog accounts live (for example datadoghq.com for US1, datadoghq.eu for EU1). A token issued on one site won’t work against another site’s API.
  • Grant only the scopes your app actually needs when creating your OAuth client — Datadog enforces the principle of least privilege, and any request against a scope you didn’t request returns a 401 even with a valid, unexpired token. See Authorization scopes for OAuth clients for the full list.
  • To send data on behalf of a connected user (rather than just reading it), you need a Datadog API key. Call the API Key Creation endpoint with the API_KEYS_WRITE scope — the generated key is only ever shown once, so store it securely.