Bring Full Stack Monitoring
to Windsurf
Learn how to connect Datadog to Windsurf and start using 16 AI agent tools in minutes. Fully managed, enterprise secure, and ready to use without writing a single line of code.
What is the Datadog MCP Server?
Connect your Datadog account to any AI agent and take full control of your observability stack through natural conversation.
What you can do
- Monitor Management — List, search, inspect, and mute monitors to control alert noise during maintenance windows
- Dashboard Inspection — Browse dashboards and retrieve full layouts, widgets, and template variables
- Metric Queries — Run time-series queries using Datadog syntax (e.g.,
avg:system.cpu.user{*}) with custom time ranges - Log Search — Search log events using Datadog query syntax across all indexed log sources
- Event Tracking — Browse platform events and create custom events with tags and priority levels
- Incident Management — List active incidents with severity, status, responders, and timeline details
- SLO Monitoring — Review Service Level Objectives with targets, error budgets, and compliance status
- Host Inventory — Access all reporting hosts with metadata, tags, and agent versions
How it works
1. Subscribe to this server
2. Enter your Datadog API Key and your site URL (e.g., https://api.datadoghq.com for US or https://api.datadoghq.eu for EU)
3. Start monitoring your infrastructure from Claude, Cursor, or any MCP-compatible client
Who is this for?
- SRE / DevOps Engineers — query monitors, mute noisy alerts, and inspect incidents without opening the Datadog dashboard
- Platform Teams — run metric queries and validate SLO compliance through conversational AI
- On-Call Engineers — triage incidents, search error logs, and check host health during outages via natural language
Built-in capabilities (16)
Verify connectivity
Create an event
Get dashboard details
Get incident details
Get monitor details
List dashboards
List events
List hosts
List incidents
List metrics
List monitors
List SLOs
Mute a monitor
Query metric data
Search logs
Search monitors
Why Windsurf?
Windsurf's Cascade agent chains multiple Datadog tool calls autonomously. query data, analyze results, and generate code in a single agentic session. Paste Vinkius Edge URL, reload, and all 16 tools are immediately available. Real-time tool feedback appears inline, so you see API responses directly in your editor.
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Windsurf's Cascade agent autonomously chains multiple tool calls in sequence, solving complex multi-step tasks without manual intervention
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Purpose-built for agentic workflows. Cascade understands context across your entire codebase and integrates MCP tools natively
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JSON-based configuration means zero code changes: paste a URL, reload, and all 16 tools are immediately available
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Real-time tool feedback is displayed inline, so you see API responses directly in your editor without switching contexts
Datadog in Windsurf
Datadog and 3,400+ other MCP servers. One platform. One governance layer.
Teams that connect Datadog to Windsurf through Vinkius don't need to source, host, or maintain individual MCP servers. Every tool call runs inside a hardened runtime with credential isolation, DLP, and a signed audit chain.
Raw MCP | Vinkius | |
|---|---|---|
| Server catalog | Find and host yourself | 3,400+ managed |
| Infrastructure | Self-hosted | Sandboxed V8 isolates |
| Credential handling | Plaintext in config | Vault + runtime injection |
| Data loss prevention | None | Configurable DLP policies |
| Kill switch | None | Global instant shutdown |
| Financial circuit breakers | None | Per-server limits + alerts |
| Audit trail | None | Ed25519 signed logs |
| SIEM log streaming | None | Splunk, Datadog, Webhook |
| Honeytokens | None | Canary alerts on leak |
| Custom domains | Not applicable | DNS challenge verified |
| GDPR compliance | Manual effort | Automated purge + export |
Why teams choose Vinkius for Datadog in Windsurf
The Datadog MCP Server runs on Vinkius-managed infrastructure inside AWS — a purpose-built runtime with per-request V8 isolates, Ed25519 signed audit chains, and sub-40ms cold starts. All 16 tools execute in hardened sandboxes optimized for native MCP execution.
Your AI agents in Windsurf only access the data you authorize, with DLP that blocks sensitive information from ever reaching the model, kill switch for instant shutdown, and up to 60% token savings. Enterprise-grade infrastructure, zero maintenance.
* Every MCP server runs on Vinkius-managed infrastructure inside AWS - a purpose-built runtime with per-request V8 isolates, Ed25519 signed audit chains, and sub-40ms cold starts optimized for native MCP execution. See our infrastructure
How Vinkius secures
Datadog for Windsurf
Every tool call from Windsurf to the Datadog MCP Server is protected by DLP redaction, cryptographic audit chains, V8 sandbox isolation, kill switch, and financial circuit breakers.
Frequently asked questions
Can I silence noisy monitors during scheduled maintenance?
Yes. The mute_monitor action silences a specific monitor by its ID, suppressing all alert notifications. This is ideal during deployment windows or planned maintenance. Use search_monitors to find the monitor by name or tag first, then mute it by ID.
Does Datadog require two credentials to connect?
Yes. You need your API Key (found in Organization Settings > API Keys) and your Base URL, which depends on your Datadog site region: https://api.datadoghq.com for US1, https://api.datadoghq.eu for EU, or https://api.us3.datadoghq.com for US3. The API Key is sent via the DD-API-KEY header.
Can I run time-series metric queries with custom time ranges?
Yes. The query_metrics tool accepts a Datadog metric query string (e.g., avg:system.cpu.user{host:web-01}), a start epoch timestamp, and an end epoch timestamp. It returns the time-series data points for that metric across the specified window.
How does Windsurf discover MCP tools?
Windsurf reads the mcp_config.json file on startup and connects to each configured server via Streamable HTTP. Tools are listed in the MCP panel and available to Cascade automatically.
Can Cascade chain multiple MCP tool calls?
Yes. Cascade is an agentic system. it can plan and execute multi-step workflows, calling several tools in sequence to accomplish complex tasks without manual prompting between steps.
Does Windsurf support multiple MCP servers?
Yes. Add as many servers as needed in mcp_config.json. Each server's tools appear in the MCP panel and Cascade can use tools from different servers in a single flow.
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