Datadog
Datadog is one of the richest signals Antimetal can pull from during an investigation: metrics, logs, and traces already correlated in one place. Antimetal connects with a read-only API key and Application key so it can query that data while an incident is live.
What Antimetal does with Datadog
- Query metrics to establish when behavior changed and which services moved with it
- Search logs and error tracking for the failure signature behind an alert
- Follow APM traces across service boundaries to locate the failing hop
- Read monitors, events, and SLOs to understand what fired and what it protects
- Pull case and incident management records for prior occurrences of the same failure
Connecting Datadog
Prerequisites
- A Datadog account with permissions to generate API keys
- Access to Organization Settings in Datadog
Go to Datadog, click your user icon in the bottom left, and select Organization Settings.
Click API Keys in the left sidebar, then select New Key. Name it
Antimetal.Save the secret API key securely — it won't be shown again.
Click Application Keys in the left sidebar, then click New Key. Name it
Antimetal.By default the app key inherits the owner's permissions. To limit access, click Edit Scopes and grant read access to APM, Case and Incident Management, Compliance, Dashboards, Error Tracking, Events, Log Management, Metrics, Monitors, Service Level Objectives, and Synthetics.
See Datadog's full list of permissions.
Paste both keys and select your region in the Antimetal UI. You can find your region in your Datadog URL —
app.datadoghq.eumeans EU.
Permissions and access
Antimetal uses read-only API and Application keys. No write operations are performed in your Datadog environment. Required scopes: APM, Metrics, Logs, Events, Monitors, and Case & Incident Management.
All tenant data is processed in isolated environments. See security and compliance for details.
Resources
- Video walkthroughwww.loom.com
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Need help?
Contact us via Slack or at support@antimetal.com.