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Overview

Warning: Action required before April 2, 2026: Enable the new Copilot usage API endpoints in your GitHub account (organizations | enterprises). No changes are needed in Datadog.

Why: Copilot has evolved beyond inline code completions into a full AI agent. The new API unlocks visibility into how your teams use Copilot’s agent capabilities: code generated autonomously by the agent, interactions with agent plan mode, agent edit mode, and more. Without enabling the new API, you’ll lose metrics coverage after April 2.

Datadog’s GitHub Copilot integration collects metrics from GitHub’s Copilot Usage API, giving you visibility into how Copilot is being used across your enterprise and organizations.

This integration covers every Copilot surface: code completions, chat, agent mode, plan mode, CLI, and pull requests. Metrics are broken down by team, language, IDE, editor, and repository, with user-level granularity.

With this integration, you can:

• Track every Copilot surface: Code completions, chat interactions (ask, edit, plan, agent, and custom modes), agent mode edits, plan mode telemetry, CLI sessions, and PR workflows.
• Measure code generation impact: See lines of code suggested versus accepted across all modes. Track PRs created, reviewed, merged, and Copilot-authored.
• Get user-level granularity: Break down adoption per individual developer, not just org- or team-level aggregates.
• Track daily and weekly active users: See how many developers are actively using Copilot and how that trends over time.
• Monitor license spend: Get real-time visibility into seat assignments for the current billing cycle.

Collected metrics

Metrics are reported under the github_copilot.usage.* namespace, with granular breakdowns by team, language, IDE, editor, and repository:

• Code completions: Suggestion counts, acceptance rates, and lines of code (suggested versus accepted) across VS Code, JetBrains, Eclipse, Xcode, and more.
• Chat: Breakdowns by mode: ask, edit, plan, agent, and custom. Covers both IDE and GitHub.com chat.
• Agent mode: Edits performed, lines added and deleted by agents.
• Plan mode: Telemetry across JetBrains, Eclipse, Xcode, and VS Code.
• CLI (enterprise only): Session counts, request volumes, and token usage.
• Pull requests: Full lifecycle: PRs created, reviewed, merged, and Copilot-authored.
• User engagement: Daily and weekly active user counts. Distinguishes between active users (any Copilot activity) and engaged users (accepted a suggestion, generated a PR summary, and so on).
• Billing: Seat assignments for the current billing cycle, continuously refreshed.

Setup

To integrate GitHub Copilot with Datadog, Datadog connects to GitHub using OAuth. The authenticated user must have owner permissions in the enterprise or organizations that want to be integrated.

Installation

1. Navigate to the Integrations Page and search for the “GitHub Copilot” Integration.
2. Click the tile.
3. To add an account to install the integration, click the Add GitHub Account button.
4. After reading the instructions in the modal, click the Authorize Organizations or Authorize Enterprise Cloud button, which redirects you to the GitHub login page.
5. After logging in, you are prompted to select which GitHub organizations you want to grant access to, based on the organizations that your user account has access to.
6. For restricted organizations:
   • Click Request beside the organization name
   • Org admins: approve in Organization settings > Third-party Access > OAuth app policy
7. Click Authorize datadog-integrations.
8. You’re redirected back to Datadog’s GitHub Copilot tile with a new account. Datadog recommends changing the account name to something that is easier to remember. You can add multiple accounts with access to different organizations.

Note: GitHub saves this authorization selection. To be prompted again or add new organizations, revoke app access in GitHub (Integrations > Applications > Authorized OAuth Apps > Datadog - GitHub Copilot OAuth App), then restart the setup process.

Validation

After installation, metrics are available with the prefix github_copilot.

Data Collected

Metrics

Service Checks

GitHub Copilot does not include any service checks.

Events

GitHub Copilot does not include any events.

Troubleshooting

Metrics aren’t appearing

If you’re seeing errors when fetching data from the metrics endpoint, such as /orgs/{org}/copilot/metrics, verify that the Copilot Metrics API policy is enabled in your GitHub organization.

To enable the Copilot Metrics API policy:

1. Go to your GitHub organization settings.
2. In the left sidebar, select Copilot > Policies.
3. Find the Copilot Metrics API section, and click Enable.

This policy is required for Datadog to retrieve Copilot usage metrics.

Still need help?

Contact Datadog support.

Further Reading

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