Prerequisites

Before setting up Code Security, ensure the following prerequisites are met:

1. Datadog Agent Installation: The Datadog Agent is installed and configured for your application’s operating system or container, cloud, or virtual environment.
2. Datadog APM Configuration: Datadog APM is configured for your application or service, and web traces (type:web) are being received by Datadog.
3. Supported Tracing Library: The Datadog Tracing Library used by your application or service supports Code Security capabilities for the language of your application or service. For more details, refer to the Library Compatibility page.

Using Datadog Tracing Libraries

Select your application language for details on how to enable Code Security for your language and infrastructure types.

Further reading

Additional helpful documentation, links, and articles:

Log processing pipelinesDOCUMENTATION Code SecurityDOCUMENTATION Enhance application security in production with Datadog Code SecurityBLOG Datadog Code Security achieves 100 percent accuracy in OWASP Benchmark by using an IAST approachBLOG