SKILL.md
Datadog Docs
Use this skill to locate Datadog documentation and limits.
LLM-Friendly Documentation
Datadog provides an LLM-optimized documentation index at:
https://docs.datadoghq.com/llms.txt
This file contains:
- Overview of all Datadog products organized by use case
- Full list of documentation pages with URLs and descriptions
- Direct links to Markdown sources (append
.mdto URLs)
How to Use llms.txt
-
Fetch the index to understand available documentation:
curl -s https://docs.datadoghq.com/llms.txt | head -100
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Search for specific topics:
Examples:
curl -s https://docs.datadoghq.com/llms.txt | grep -i "monitors"
curl -s https://docs.datadoghq.com/llms.txt | grep -i "apm"
curl -s https://docs.datadoghq.com/llms.txt | grep -i "logs"
- Fetch specific doc pages (add .md to most Datadog Docs URLs for raw content):
curl -s https://docs.datadoghq.com/monitors.md
curl -s https://docs.datadoghq.com/tracing.md
Key Documentation Sections
Topic
URL
APM/Tracing
https://docs.datadoghq.com/tracing/
Logs
https://docs.datadoghq.com/logs/
Metrics
https://docs.datadoghq.com/metrics/
Monitors
https://docs.datadoghq.com/monitors/
Dashboards
https://docs.datadoghq.com/dashboards/
Security
https://docs.datadoghq.com/security/
Synthetics
https://docs.datadoghq.com/synthetics/
RUM
https://docs.datadoghq.com/real_user_monitoring/
Incidents
https://docs.datadoghq.com/service_management/incident_management/
API Reference
https://docs.datadoghq.com/api/
Scope Guardrails
- Use llms.txt for documentation lookups
- Defer to official docs for feature availability and limits
Failure Handling
- If docs.datadoghq.com is unreachable, check network connectivity
- For region-specific docs, use appropriate site (datadoghq.eu, etc.)