# dd-pup

A skill that hands your agent ready pup commands for Datadog: logs, metrics, monitors, incidents. Useful when triage happens in the chat window.

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- Author: datadog-labs
- License: MIT · policy=mirror · the beginning of the file is at the end of this page
- Source: https://github.com/datadog-labs/agent-skills/tree/HEAD/dd-pup/SKILL.md
- Updated: 2026-10-22
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## What it does

The skill documents pup, a Rust CLI for the Datadog API. It ships a quick-reference table plus sections for monitors, logs, metrics, traces, incidents, dashboards, SLOs, on-call and audit logs. Your agent copies a working command instead of guessing at flags.

Auth runs through OAuth2 in the browser or through API keys. Tokens last about an hour, so a 401 or 403 mid-conversation means running `pup auth refresh` first and falling back to `pup auth login` only if that fails. Headless machines have no browser: set `DD_API_KEY`, `DD_APP_KEY` and `DD_SITE` instead.

One rule stands out: never fire a command that still holds a placeholder such as `<env>` or `<monitor-id>`. Check the conversation, run a discovery command, confirm with the user, then execute. Dashboard create, clone and update get their own workflow — a read-only snapshot, a separate payload stripped of response-only fields, then a comparison of source and destination. The skill calls the pup binary, so nothing works until pup is on the machine.

## Requirements
- Works with: Datadog

## Install

### Claude Code (native platform)

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add datadog-labs/agent-skills --skill dd-pup -a claude-code
```

2. **Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `~/.claude/skills/dd-pup/SKILL.md` — Copy the whole skill folder; for one project use .claude/skills/dd-pup/

### Codex

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add datadog-labs/agent-skills --skill dd-pup -a codex
```

2. **Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `.agents/skills/dd-pup/SKILL.md` — For all projects use ~/.agents/skills/

### Cursor

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add datadog-labs/agent-skills --skill dd-pup -a cursor
```

2. **Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `.cursor/skills/dd-pup/SKILL.md` — Cursor also reads .agents/skills/ and .claude/skills/

### GitHub Copilot

1. **GitHub CLI**
```bash
gh skill install datadog-labs/agent-skills dd-pup
```

2. **Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `.github/skills/dd-pup/SKILL.md`

### Gemini CLI

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add datadog-labs/agent-skills --skill dd-pup -a gemini-cli
```

2. **Platform CLI**
```bash
gemini skills install https://github.com/datadog-labs/agent-skills --path dd-pup
```

### Windsurf (Devin Desktop)

**Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `.devin/skills/dd-pup/SKILL.md` — The legacy .windsurf/skills/ path still works

### OpenCode

**Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add datadog-labs/agent-skills --skill dd-pup -a opencode
```

### Claude.ai

**Claude.ai**
- Zip the folder and upload it in Settings → Capabilities → Skills

Where a file is given instead of a command, copy the files from the source to that path: https://github.com/datadog-labs/agent-skills/tree/HEAD/dd-pup/SKILL.md

## When to use it
- pull error logs for a service from the last hour
- diff a live monitor against a local JSON file
- schedule monitor downtime from a payload file
- find slow traces for one service
- trace deleted actions in audit logs

## Example prompts
- Search error logs for the checkout service from the last hour
- Show slow traces for api-gateway over the past hour
- Diff monitor 12345 against monitor.json

## Source text · SKILL.md · MIT

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---
name: dd-pup
description: Datadog CLI (Rust). OAuth2 auth with token refresh.
metadata:
  version: "1.0.2"
  author: datadog-labs
  repository: https://github.com/datadog-labs/agent-skills
  tags: datadog,cli,dd-pup,pup
  alwaysApply: "false"
---

# pup (Datadog CLI)

Pup CLI for Datadog API operations. Supports OAuth2 and API key auth.

## Quick Reference

| Task | Command |
|------|---------|
| Search error logs | `pup logs search --query "status:error" --from 1h` |
| List monitors | `pup monitors list` |
| Diff a monitor definition | `pup monitors diff <monitor-id> monitor.json` |
| Schedule monitor downtime | `pup downtime create --file downtime.json` |
| Open a dashboard at a live time window | `pup dashboards url <dashboard-id> --from now-1h --to now --live true` |
| Find recent slow traces for a service (last 1h) | `pup traces search --query "service:<service-name> @duration:>500ms" --from 1h` |
| List incidents | `pup incidents list --limit 50` |
| Import incident payload | `pup incidents import --file incident.json` |
| Query metrics | `pup metrics query --query "avg:system.cpu.user{*}"` |
| List hosts | `pup infrastructure hosts list --count 50` |
| Check SLOs | `pup slos list` |
| On-call teams | `pup on-call teams list` |
| Triage open critical security signals (last 1h) | `pup security signals list --query "status:open severity:critical" --from 1h --limit 100` |
| Search audit logs | `pup audit-logs search --query "@action:deleted" --from 24h` |
| Audit activity by user | `pup audit-logs search --query "@usr.email:user@example.com" --from 7d` |
| Investigate API key | `pup audit-logs search --query "@metadata.api_key.id:KEY_ID" --from 90d` |
| Check auth | `pup auth status` |
| Token expiry (time left) | `pup auth status` |
| Refresh token | `pup auth refresh` |

## Prerequisites

Install pup using the [setup instructions](https://github.com/datadog-labs/agent-skills/tree/main?tab=readme-ov-file#setup-pup).

## Required Input Resolution

For commands that need specific scope values (`<env>`, `<service-name>`, `<team-id>`, resource IDs), use this order:

1. Check context first (conversation history, prior command output, saved variables).
2. If missing, run a discovery command first (list/search) to get valid values.
3. If still missing or ambiguous, ask the user to confirm the exact value.
4. Then run the target command.
5. Never run commands with unresolved placeholders like `<env>` or `<monitor-id>`.

## Auth

```bash
pup auth login          # OAuth2 browser flow (recommended)
pup auth status         # Check token validity
pup auth refresh        # Refresh expired token (no browser)
pup auth logout         # Clear credentials
```

**Tokens expire (~1 hour)**. If a command fails with 401/403 mid-conversation:

```bash
pup auth refresh        # Try refresh first
pup auth login          # If refresh fails, full re-auth
```
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