Datadog Integration
Import OpenTelemetry spans from your Datadog account into Paid for retroactive billing or to leverage existing instrumentation without modifying your application code.
Prerequisites
- Datadog API key: Found in Organization Settings → API Keys
- Datadog App key: Found in Personal Settings → Application Keys
Setup
1. Add Datadog Credentials
Navigate to Settings → Integrations → Datadog and configure your credentials:
- Name: Descriptive identifier (e.g.,
datadog-prod). Must contain only alphanumeric characters or-/_+=@! - Description: Optional notes to identify this key pair
- Datadog API key: Your organization API key
- Datadog App key: Your application key
Multiple credential sets can be added for different environments.
2. Import Spans
Navigate to Events and click Import from Datadog:
Configure your import:
- Query: Datadog span query (e.g.,
@otel.library.name:ai) - Date range: Time period to import from
- Agent: Product to associate spans with
- Customer: Customer to bill for these spans
- Datadog credentials: Credential set to use
- Limit: Maximum spans to import (1-10,000)
Click Preview to verify results before importing.
