How to connect Datadog to Claude

Claude is Anthropic's AI assistant, available on the web, in the desktop app, and on mobile. Cowork is its agent for knowledge work, and it runs on all of those surfaces too. Connected to your apps, Claude can work with your files and services to accomplish complex tasks on your behalf.

This guide walks you through the easiest and most secure way to connect your Datadog account to Claude via Composio Connect, enabling it to create downtime for nightly maintenance window, list all monitors tracking CPU usage, create synthetic API test for login endpoint, and more such actions on your behalf without compromising your account security.

Setup is the same on Claude Web, Desktop, and Cowork, and you only need to do it once. The connector is tied to your account, so it's available in all three.

Connecting Datadog to Claude Web, Desktop, and Cowork

Two ways to add the Composio connector. Pick whichever you prefer.

1. Add with one click

Click the button. Claude opens with the Composio connector filled in. Click Add, then go to step 2.

Add to Claude

Add manually

In Claude Desktop, click Customize in the left sidebar, then select Connectors and click the + icon at the top.

Click Add custom connector and paste in the Composio MCP server URL:

The Datadog MCP server is an implementation of the Model Context Protocol that connects your AI agent and assistants like Claude, Cursor, etc directly to your Datadog account. It provides structured and secure access to your monitoring and observability platform, so your agent can perform actions like creating dashboards, managing monitors, scheduling downtimes, and tracking key events on your behalf.

• Custom dashboard creation and management: Direct your agent to build new dashboards or retrieve detailed information about existing dashboards for unified infrastructure and application monitoring.
• Monitor setup and deletion: Easily have your agent create new monitors to track critical metrics or remove outdated ones to keep your alerting system relevant.
• Automated downtime scheduling: Let your agent schedule maintenance windows by creating downtimes that suppress alerts during planned outages or deployments.
• Event tracking and logging: Ask your agent to create and log significant events—like deployments or configuration changes—so your team always stays informed.
• Service level objectives and synthetic testing: Instruct your agent to define SLOs or set up synthetic API tests for continuous reliability and performance tracking.