Libraries

API and DogStatsD client libraries

The following table lists Datadog-official and community contributed API and DogStatsD client libraries. A few libraries support both the API and DogStatsD, but most focus on one or the other.

language	library	Author	Notes
Arduino	ArduinoStatsd	Alexander Else
C++	cpp-datadogstatsd	BoardiesITSolutions	Send metrics from your C++ applications to your Datadog account.
	DogFood	Garrett Sickles	C++ header library to send metrics to your Datadog account.
C# / .NET	dogstatsd-csharp-client	Datadog
	DatadogSharp	Yoshifumi Kawai	Also supports APM.
	DatadogStatsD	Gregoire Verdier	High Performance DogStatsD Client for .NET Core
Clojure	clojure-statsd-client	Unbounce	A DogStatsD client for Clojure.
Crystal	statsd.cr	Mike Fiedler
Delphi	datadog-delphi	Rodrigo Farias Rezino
Elixir	ex-datadog-plug	Tyr Chen, Tubi	A plug for logging response times.
	mtx	N2O Ecosystem
	statix	Aleksei Magusev
Erlang / Elixir	dogstatsde	waisbrot
Go	datadog-go	Datadog
	datadog-api-client-go	Datadog	Client library in beta and subject to change.
	godspeed	Tim Heckman
	xstats	Olivier Poitrey
	go-datadog-api	Mark Smith from Dropbox
Haskell	Haskell Datadog Client	Ian Duncan
Java	java-dogstatsd-client	Datadog
	datadog-api-client-java	Datadog	Client library in beta and subject to change.
	Lassie	Bazaarvoice	Only for creating screenboards.
	java-dogstatsd-client	Arnab Karmakar	A fork of Indeed's java-dogstatsd-client; supports events and blocking metrics.
	metrics-datadog	Coursera	A reporting bridge between Dropwizard metrics and Datadog.
	dogstatd-client	Chas Honton
Lambda	serverless-datadog-metrics	Dante Consulting, Inc.	This library logs useful metrics from AWS Lambda functions, so that they can be accumulated via Datadog's AWS Lambda integration.
NiFi	DataDogReportingTask	Apache	Publishes metrics from NiFi to Datadog.
Node.js	hot-shots	Brightcove
	node-dogstatsd	Young Han Lee
	node-dogapi	Brett Langdon
	datadog-metrics	Daniel Bader
Perl	webservice-datadog	Jennifer Pinkham
	dogstatsd-perl	Stefan Goethals
PHP	php-datadogstatsd	Alex Corley
	dog-statsd	graze.com	A fork of thephpleague/statsd with additional Datadog features by Graze.
Python	datadogpy	Datadog	Also includes an API client CLI tool, 'dog'.
R	datadogr		A simple R package to query for metrics.
	rdog	Alexis Lê-Quôc	An R package to analyze Datadog metrics into R.
Racket	racket-dogstatsd	DarrenN	A DogStatsD client for Racket.
Ruby	DogApi	Datadog
	dogstatsd-ruby	Datadog
Scala	datadog-scala	Cory Watson
	datadog4s	Avast	Toolkit for monitoring applications written in functional Scala using Datadog.
	scaladog	NomadBlacky	Datadog API client for Scala.
Swift	SwiftDog	Jacob Aronoff

APM & Distributed Tracing client libraries

The following table lists Datadog-official and community contributed trace client libraries.

language	library	Author	Notes
.NET	dd-trace-dotnet	Datadog	NuGet package is `Datadog.Trace`.
	DatadogSharp	Yoshifumi Kawai	Also supports DogStatsD.
Elixir	spandex	Zach Daniel
Go	dd-trace-go	Datadog	Go package 'tracer'.
	dd-go-opentracing	Gustavo Chaín	OpenTracing Tracer implementation for Datadog in Go.
	datadog-go	Matt Ho	OpenTracing Tracer implementation for Datadog in Go.
Java	dd-trace-java	Datadog	Java package 'tracer'.
	apm-client	Chas Honton
Node.js	dd-trace-js	Datadog	OpenTracing API implementation in JavaScript for Node.js.
PHP	dd-trace-php	Datadog	composer package is 'datadog/dd-trace'.
Python	dd-trace-py	Datadog	pip package is called 'ddtrace'.
Ruby	dd-trace-rb	Datadog	gem is called 'ddtrace'.
	ddtrace-rb-method-wrapper	Brandfolder	gem is called `ddtrace-method-wrapper`.
Rust	datadog-apm	Pipefy
Scala	scala-opentracing	Colisweb

Log management client libraries

The following table lists Datadog-official and community contributed log management client libraries.

Type	library	Official	Author	Notes
Laravel	laravel-datadog-logger		Aurélien SCHILTZ	Logger, handler, and formatter created for DataDog log management on Laravel framework.

Datadog client community libraries

Dashboards backup

Using Datadog APIs, it’s possible to write a script to backup your Dashboard definitions as code. See the following projects as examples of how these backups can be accomplished:

Language	Library	Author
JavaScript	dog-watcher	Brightcove
Ruby	doggy	Shopify
Ruby	kennel	Zendesk

Managing monitors

There are multiple community projects available to maintain, manage, or backup monitors using the Datadog API:

Language	Library	Author
Python	DogPush	TrueAccord
Ruby	barkdog	codenize-tools
Ruby	interferon	Airbnb
Ruby	dogwatch	Rapid7
Terraform	Terraform	Terraform
Terraform	datadog-to-terraform	Intercom

Community integrations

Ansible

In addition to the official Ansible integration, the monitoring section of the ansible-modules-extras repository contains modules that interact with Datadog.

Aptible

Enclave delivers your metrics to a Datadog account. Consult the dedicated Aptible help center to learn how.

Auth0

This extension takes your Auth0 logs and ships them to Datadog.

CLI Management

A set of tools to backup/restore dashboards and monitors, and configure users via a command line interface.

Consul

Publish consul service counts into Datadog via DogStatsD with this library.

Dogscaler

Scale up auto-scale groups based on the results of a Datadog query with Dogscaler.

Dynatrace

This plugin sends any Dynatrace measure from a chart to Datadog.

FreeSwitch

This is for a FreeSwitch ESL application to export statistics to Datadog using the DogStatsD API and is written by WiMacTel.

Google Analytics

You can get data into Datadog from Google Analytics via the Datadog API with this library from Bithaus.

Heroku

Heroku emits dyno metrics via logs. To convert these logs into metrics and send them to Datadog, use one of the following log drains. To send your Heroku logs to Datadog, see the documentation.

Heroku Datadog Log Drain written in Nodejs by Oz.
Heroku Datadog Log Drain written in Go by Apiary.

Jira

A tool to poll data from Jira and upload it as metrics to Datadog.

K6

K6, a load and performance regression testing tool developed by Load Impact, can send test results to Datadog using DogStatsD. To enable this feature, see the tutorial.

LaunchDarkly

A LaunchDarkly webhook handler that records changes as Datadog events.

Logstash Output

Moogsoft

A Moogsoft listener that ingests Datadog notifications.

NGINX LUA

Emit custom metrics directly from NGINX configurations using the nginx_lua_datadog module in your LUA scripts.
lua-resty-dogstatsd is an extension developed by mediba inc, which enables emiting metrics, events, and service checks to DogStatsD protocol. lua-resty-dogstatsd is released as GPLv3 and relies on the nginx cosocket API.

OpenVPN

Send OpenVPN bandwidth usage and the count of active connections to Datadog.
Send OpenVPN licensing information to Datadog.

Phusion Passenger

Send health metrics from Phusion’s Passenger server using the passenger-datadog-monitor written by Stevenson Jean-Pierre

Pid-stats

This library allows you to generate process information from StatsD, given pid files. It was created by GitterHQ.

Saltstack

Datadog Saltstack Formula
Datadog Saltstack written by Luca Cipriani.

Sensu

Use these Sensu handlers to automatically send both metrics and events to Datadog.

StackStorm

This StackStorm Datadog integration pack supplies action integration for Datadog.

Winston

A Winston Datadog transport.

Community Agent ports

FreeBSD

FreeBSD dd-agent port

NixOS

dd-agent nixpkg

If you’ve written a Datadog library and would like to add it to this page, send an email to code@datadoghq.com.