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See Connect an observability platform for initial setup.

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What the Datadog integration enables

FeatureRequires
OTel health reportsAPI key + App key
Reliability reportsAPI key + App key
Create dashboardsApp key with dashboards_write
Create monitorsApp key with monitors_write
Automatic webhook registrationApp key with integrations_write

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Updating credentials

  1. Go to Integrations → Datadog card.
  2. Click Edit.
  3. Update the API key, application key, or site.
  4. Click Save.

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Datadog sites

SiteURLsite value
US1 (default)datadoghq.comdatadoghq.com
EUdatadoghq.eudatadoghq.eu
US3us3.datadoghq.comus3.datadoghq.com
US5us5.datadoghq.comus5.datadoghq.com
AP1ap1.datadoghq.comap1.datadoghq.com
Set the site to match where your Datadog organization is hosted.

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OTel metric naming in Datadog

The Datadog OTel exporter converts OTLP counter metrics by dropping the _total suffix: 
Prometheus name:  otelcol_receiver_accepted_spans_total
Datadog name:     otelcol_receiver_accepted_spans     ← use this
Gauge metrics (e.g. otelcol_exporter_queue_size, otelcol_process_memory_rss) are unchanged. Obsy’s queries already use the correct Datadog names. If you’re writing your own Datadog monitors for OTel collector health, use the names without _total.

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Webhook auto-registration

When you click Create Monitors, Obsy automatically registers the obsy webhook in your Datadog organization using your application key. After registration, Obsy adds @webhook-obsy to all 11 generated monitors. You can verify the webhook in Datadog: Integrations → Webhooks → obsy.