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Datadog Authentication Guide

How to authenticate Datadog for use with Tines

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Written by Daniel Stoeski
Updated over a month ago

Datadog is an observability service for cloud-scale applications, providing monitoring of servers, databases, tools, and services, through a SaaS-based data analytics platform

First, get a Datadog API key

  1. Login to your Datadog account at https://app.datadoghq.com/account/login

  2. Navigate to "Organization settings" and click the "API keys" tab

  3. Click "New Key"

  4. Name your key and click "Create Key"


  5. Copy your API key to a text editor and click "Finish"

The following steps are only required if you will also require an application key

  1. Navigate to "Organization Settings" and select "Application Keys"

  2. Click on "New Key",

  3. Name your key and click "Create Key"


  4. Copy your Application key to a text editor and click "Finish"

    1. Optionally, click "Edit" and selecting the required scopes for the key and click "Save"


Lastly, create a Datadog credential in Tines

Datadog connect flow (recommended):

  1. Login to your Tines tenant

  2. Navigate to the team that will be using the API and click "Credentials"

  3. Click "+ New Credential" and select "Datadog" and follow the prompts to connect.

Read about our connect flows here.

For more on creating credentials in Tines, click here.

You can find a selection of Datadog stories in the story library

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