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Set up Datadog MCP in VS Code

Access Datadog monitoring data including dashboards, metrics, logs, events, incidents, and monitors from your AI editor.

1

Locate the config file

VS Code reads MCP server configuration from the following file:

.vscode/settings.json → mcp section

Create this file if it does not already exist. For VS Code, this is inside your workspace .vscode/settings.json file under the mcp section.

2

Add the configuration

Add the following to your VS Code config file:

json
{
  "servers": {
    "datadog-mcp": {
      "type": "stdio",
      "command": "npx",
      "args": [
        "-y",
        "datadog-mcp-server"
      ],
      "env": {
        "DD_API_KEY": "YOUR_DD_API_KEY",
        "DD_APP_KEY": "YOUR_DD_APP_KEY"
      }
    }
  }
}
3

Set up environment variables

Datadog MCP requires the following environment variables:

DD_API_KEYRequired

Datadog API key

DD_APP_KEYRequired

Datadog application key

4

Verify it works

Restart VS Code. Datadog MCP should appear in your MCP server list with 15 tools available.

This server adds approximately 7,725 tokens to your context window for tool definitions.

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