🚀 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).
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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.
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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.
- cURL
- Node
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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.- How to register your own Datadog OAuth app Register an OAuth client with Datadog and obtain credentials to connect it to Nango
- How to link your Datadog account Find your Datadog site parameter and connect your account through Nango’s UI
🧩 Pre-built syncs & actions for Datadog (OAuth)
Enable them in your dashboard. Extend and customize to fit your needs. No pre-built syncs or actions available yet.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.comfor US1,datadoghq.eufor 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_WRITEscope — the generated key is only ever shown once, so store it securely.