Overview

Datadog’s Internal Developer Portal (IDP) unifies live telemetry, metadata, and self-service workflows to standardize and accelerate software delivery.

• Powered by live telemetry, Software Catalog inventories every service and environment in real time and enriches each entry with descriptive metadata for ownership and operational context.
• Self-Service Actions and Scorecards translate platform policies into one-click tasks, ensuring every change meets observability, security, and production criteria.
• Built-in Engineering Reports give platform engineers and leaders real-time visibility into software quality, standards adoption, and developer experience, making it easy to identify gaps and drive data-backed decisions.

If you’re new to IDP, start with the Getting Started guide, which walks through setup and basic usage.

Common use cases

Main features

Working with teams

Use Datadog Teams to enable team-based features in IDP:

• Track your teams in Datadog and automatically sync with your external sources of truth
• Assign teams as owners of services and other entities
• Filter views by team throughout IDP (for example, in Software Catalog, Scorecards, and Engineering Reports)

If your organization manages team structure in GitHub, join the preview for GitHub Integration for Teams to automatically sync GitHub teams to Datadog.

Further reading

Additional helpful documentation, links, and articles:

Getting Started with Internal Developer PortalDOCUMENTATION Improve developer experience and collaboration with Software CatalogBLOG Prioritize and promote service observability best practices with Service ScorecardsBLOG Empower your engineering teams with Self-Service Actions in Datadog Software CatalogBLOG How Datadog's Infrastructure team manages internal deployments using the Service Catalog and CI/CD VisibilityBLOG Ship software quickly and confidently with Datadog IDPBLOG