Datadog CLI for searching logs, querying metrics, tracing requests, and managing dashboards. Use this when debugging production issues or working with Datadog observability.

Datadog CLI A CLI tool for AI agents to debug and triage using Datadog logs and metrics. Required Reading You MUST read the relevant reference docs before using any command: [Log Commands](references/logs commands.md) [Metrics](references/metrics.md) [Query Syntax](references/query syntax.md) [Workflows](references/workflows.md) [Dashboards](references/dashboards.md) Setup Environment Variables (Required) Get keys from: https://app.datadoghq.com/organization settings/api keys Running the CLI For non US Datadog sites, use site flag: Commands Overview Command Description logs search Search logs with filters logs tail Stream logs in real time logs trace Find logs for a distributed trace logs context Get logs before/after a timestamp logs patterns Group similar log messages logs compare Compare log counts between periods logs multi Run multiple queries in parallel logs agg Aggregate logs by facet metrics query Query timeseries metrics errors Quick error summary by service/type services List services with log activity dashboards Manage dashboards (CRUD) dashboard lists Manage dashboard lists Quick Examples Search Errors Tail Logs (Real time) Error Summary Trace Correlation Query Metrics Compare Periods Global Flags Flag Description pretty Human readable output with colors output <file Export results to JSON file site <site Datadog site (e.g., datadoghq.eu ) Time Formats Relative : 30m , 1h , 6h , 24h , 7d ISO 8601 : 2024 01 15T10:30:00Z Incident Triage Workflow See [workflows.md](references/workflows.md) for more debugging workflows.

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