Introduction

With Finout's seamless Datadog integration, gain precise cost visibility and monitor expenses daily. Conveniently view your Datadog spend alongside other providers, facilitating easy cost allocation for teams, applications, and environments. Utilize Finout's comprehensive cost governance suite for anomaly detection, budget enforcement, and accurate bill forecasting.

Moreover, Datadog is seamlessly integrated into our cost optimization suite, CostGuard, which automatically detects and offers waste reduction recommendations for logs, metrics, and other Datadog products.

Connecting Datadog to Finout

To connect with Finout, you will be required to provide a pair of APP key and API key from Datadog and add them to Finout onboarding console page.

For guidance on creating API Keys and Scoped/Non-Scoped APP Keys, please refer to the main documentation here.

Datadog Integration Levels

The Finout-Datadog integration offers multiple levels, granting users the flexibility to choose from diverse Finout features and supported Datadog products available at each level. Each level requires different Datadog scopes. In order to gain all Datadog capabilities and features in Finout platform ‘not scoped’ key is required.

Datadog Integration Levels

Datadog scopes	Finout platform functionality	Organization keys level	API Used
usage_read	Basic Datadog cost center integration - View Datadog’s products in Finout’s MegaBill with breakdowns by usage type (committed / on-demand cost), products, and organization.	Only Parent organization	get-hourly-usage-by-product-family Get estimated cost
usage_read, metrics_read, timeseries_query	Enhanced Datadog integration- Default Datadog list of tags per product	Parent organization + all multiple child-organizations	query-timeseries-points list-tags-by-metric-name
monitors_read, dashboards_read	CostGuard- Out-of-the-box actionable cost optimizations for Idle Synthetics.	Parent organization + all multiple child-organizations	get-all-dashboards get-a-dashboard get-all-monitor-details
Not scoped	Enhanced Datadog integration- Custom tags set by the customer Products basic list of tags- Indexed Log Enhanced Datadog integration- Kubernetes cost and unit metrics	Parent organization + all multiple child-organizations	get-all-indexes list-tags-by-metric-name get-all-hosts-for-your-organization query-timeseries-points

Below is a detailed breakdown of each level, including the supported Datadog products and the required scopes:

1. Basic Datadog integration

Finout’s most basic offering. Add your Datadog’s products cost to Finout’s MegaBill with breakdowns by, sub-products, regions, and organizations.

Supported products (more to come!)-

Infrastructure monitoring
- Infra host
APM
APM Continuous Profiler
Cloud Workload Security (CWS)
Database monitoring
Fargate Profiled Tasks
Cloud SIEM (Analyzed Logs)
Ingested logs
Indexed logs
RUM session replays
Serveless Invocations
Synthetic Browser Tests
Synthetic API Tests
CI Visibility Committers

Required scopes- usage_read, metrics_read, timeseries_query

Note: For the basic Datadog integration, having keys for the parent organization is sufficient. However, for enhanced integrations, API keys for all multiple child-organizations are required.

2. Enhanced Datadog integration- Cost per tag visibility

With this advanced integration level, you can add cost-per-tag visibility to the Finout MegaBill. By incorporating product tags, you can access a more comprehensive breakdown of your Datadog products, facilitating precise cost attribution to specific services.

There are two groups of tags that can be added to Finout-

Default Datadog set of tags per product-
For example, the tags for Indexed Log- "service", "status", "datadog_index"

Required scopes- metrics_read, timeseries_query
Custom tags set by the customer-
Customers have the freedom to set their own custom tags. Our process is designed to dynamically resolve tag values based on customer specifications. In cases where resolution is unsuccessful, Finout utilizes its default tag set as a fallback option.

Required scopes- not scoped

3. Enhanced Datadog integration-CostGuard

Finout enables you to effortlessly access out-of-the-box actionable cost optimizations and insights for your Datadog usage via the CostGuard product.

Required scopes: monitor_read, dashboard_read

4. Enhanced Datadog integration- Kubernetes cost and unit metrics

Required scopes: not scoped

Finout Console Integration

Log into your Finout account
Choose Settings
Choose Cost Centers
Add Cost Center
Choose Datadog and Connect Now
Add the API key and APP key. To learn how to create API Keys and Scoped/Non-Scoped APP Keys, please refer to the main documentation here.