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datadog from nitinjain999/platform-skills is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.

Install it, pinned
mdr add nitinjain999/platform-skills/datadog@git:20261018.90b97a9

Pins git:20261018.90b97a9 in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.

Audit grade
A, 17 of 17 checks passed
Kind
SKILL.md skill
Repository
nitinjain999/platform-skills
Path
plugins/platform-skills/skills/datadog/SKILL.md
Versions recorded
1
Latest version
git:20261018.90b97a9, committed Oct 18, 2026
Size
8,596 bytes
Repository stars
71
License
Apache-2.0

Set up and troubleshoot Datadog — Agent deployment on Kubernetes, APM instrumentation, Log Management, Monitors, Dashboards, SLOs, Synthetic tests, and live incident investigation using the Datadog MCP server. Covers Terraform-managed Datadog resources.

Collected from public GitHub. Every version is saved exactly as it was and never changes. Install it at an exact version with the mdr tool, and every file is checked before it reaches your agent. The main file is checked against the SHA-256 fingerprint recorded here, and the others against the fingerprints GitHub keeps for its source commit. The automatic checks below grade the latest version, and the same checks always give the same file the same grade.

What the file says

Configure, troubleshoot, or investigate incidents in Datadog.

## Mode: setup

Deploy and configure the Datadog Agent on Kubernetes.

Steps:
1. Ask for: Kubernetes distribution (EKS/AKS/GKE), Datadog site (EU: `datadoghq.eu` / US: `datadoghq.com`), features needed (APM, logs, process monitoring)
2. Generate Helm values with: API key from Secret (never hardcoded), APM enabled, log collection enabled, cluster name set, Cluster Agent enabled with 2 replicas
3. Provide install command: `helm upgrade --install datadog datadog/datadog -f values.yaml -n datadog`
4. Provide verification commands: `kubectl exec -n datadog ds/datadog -- agent status`
5. Add Unified Service Tagging labels (`DD_ENV`, `DD_SERVICE`, `DD_VERSION`) to app Deployment

## Mode: instrument

Add APM tracing to a service.

Steps:
1. Ask for: language (Node.js / Python / Java / Go), framework (Express / Django / Spring / etc.), whether log-trace correlation is needed
2. Generate tracer initialisation code — `dd-trace` init must be the first import in Node.js; use `ddtrace-run` or `patch_all()` in Python
3. Add Unified Service Tagging env vars to the Deployment manifest
…

Read the whole file at its exact version.

How to install

The exact contents, by fingerprint
mdr add nitinjain999/platform-skills/datadog@sha256:28fdf714ed0acf19

The line at the top of this page pins the label git:20261018.90b97a9, which is what most people want. This one pins the sha256 fingerprint of the contents instead, so it survives a label being moved. Either way the exact version is written to mdr.lock, and mdr install downloads and checks those contents again, so it installs them exactly or stops with an error.

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Versions

The registry has recorded 1 version of this file, committed on Oct 18, 2026.

versioncommittedcommitsizeaudit
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Audit of the latest version

A  17 of 17 checks passed. Fixed automatic checks with no AI involved, so the same checks give the same answer every run.
  • pass: Frontmatter block present
  • pass: Frontmatter declares a name
  • pass: Frontmatter declares a description
  • pass: Size between 200 bytes and 200 KB (8596 bytes)
  • pass: No zero-width or bidi control characters
  • pass: No instruction hidden inside an HTML comment
  • pass: No link to an exfiltration or paste host
  • pass: No credential-shaped string
  • pass: No instruction to send local credentials anywhere
  • pass: No text hidden with inline styles
  • pass: No prompt-injection phrasing
  • pass: No curl or wget piped into a shell
  • pass: No recursive delete of root, home or parent
  • pass: No instruction to read or print local credentials
  • pass: No base64 blob over 200 characters
  • pass: No link to a raw IP address
  • pass: No script tag

Source

GitHub

nitinjain999/platform-skills · 71 stars · license Apache-2.0 · pushed 2026-11-03 · branch main

API

GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_diah7c4f6mhjxr3t
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=nitinjain999/platform-skills/datadog
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/28fdf714ed0acf19e63743195d77fd40987ad2c95f683cd689902592a1ee4ec5

Your AI assistant does the legwork. You hear about the deals worth your word. Hand yours the standing instructions at modelranch.com and it joins the network that reads files like this one.

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