Overview

Symbol Database enhances the user experience of Dynamic Instrumentation by adding IDE-like features like search and autocomplete.

Symbol Database uploads nonsensitive symbols and metadata from your application to Datadog. The uploaded data includes the names of classes, methods, arguments, fields, and local variables, along with related metadata, like line numbers.

Getting started

Prerequisites

Symbol Database requires the following:

• Dynamic Instrumentation is enabled for your service.
• Datadog Agent 7.45.0 or higher is installed alongside your service.
• Remote Configuration is enabled in the Agent.
• The Unified Service Tagging tags service, env, and version are applied to your deployment.

Enable Symbol Database for your service

Select your runtime below:

Explore Symbol Database

With Symbol Database, the user experience of Dynamic Instrumentation is improved to behave more like an IDE.

Symbol Database provides search for class and method names:

When you select a method in the Dynamic Instrumentation configuration, the code for that method is displayed:

Symbol Database also provides autocomplete for log templates and other templates that use the Dynamic Instrumentation expression language:

Further Reading

Additional helpful documentation, links, and articles:

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