Datadog’s Service Catalog automates key tasks and centralizes essential resources (such as docs, runbooks, scorecards, and templates) to reduce time-to-first-commit and optimize the overall developer experience.

Quick access to documentation and standards

Service Catalog acts as a single source of truth for your engineering environment. Newly onboarded developers can:

• Quickly locate relevant APIs, services, repositories, and dependencies.
• Access up-to-date documentation, code snippets, and runbooks, enabling them to start making meaningful contributions.
• Navigate organized metadata and organizational inventory to understand the team’s structure, communication channels, and best practices.

Automate onboarding workflows

Software Templates reduces the manual toil of onboarding by standardizing and streamlining common tasks. With Software Templates, you can:

• Kick off onboarding workflows that automatically provision Git repos, assign PagerDuty schedules, or notify relevant Slack channels.
• Integrate with third-party tools and systems to ensure every new developer starts with the correct permissions, environments, and resources.
• Scale onboarding processes as your team grows while maintaining consistency and quality across new hires.

Explore App Builder blueprints to automate developer onboarding tasks.

Further reading

Additional helpful documentation, links, and articles:

Datadog ScorecardsDOCUMENTATION Datadog Software TemplatesDOCUMENTATION